New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-25
British Note Brings Crisis
specsa, Cable to The Tribune


Copyright. 1921. New York Tribune Inc
PARIS, July 24.-The crisis of the
Silesian controversy was reached early
to-day, when the British government
advised the Paris Foreign Office that
France should not carry out her an
nounced intention of dispatching 10000
additional troops to Upper Silesia with
out the consent Of all the Allies. This
development was followed later with
the announcement that the controverss-
had been settled].
refused to permit French troops to
cross German territory in reaching Si-.l
lesia unless they were part of an in-.
ter-Allied troop movement.
Delicate Stage of Controversy
To neutral observers here the contro.
versy between England and France ar
peared early to-day to have entered an
extremely delicate stage. Momentarily
the real issue of Silesia had been
thrust into the background while the
two most powerful of the European Al
lies exchanged hasty notes, expressing
diametrically opposite opinions
call a meeting of the Supreme Allied
Council to discuss the Silesian ques-
tion, Premier Lloyd George twice
declined to accept the French view that
the dispatch of reinforcements to Up
per Silesia was imperative to protect
the Allied police units already there
against renewed Polish and German
attacks. England in effect finally ad-
monished France not to act individ-
ually.
The semi-oficial Temps says:
After deal of ordinations en,y
meditations, it develops that England
and Germany both oppose the French
thesis on the same grounds and make
TO France at almost the same hour
declarations which in a sense ara
identical.''
The newspaper asks whether the
British in certain instances asked
French advice when they sent war;
ships to protect British rights, and
continues:
did England act after inter-Alliedl
deliberations No. She used the in-
contestable right possessed by governs
ments whose forces are guarding for
eign territory, viz, the right of taking
precautions against an uprising or an
eventual massacre. This is precisely
the attitude of France when she isl
preparing to send division to upaerl
Silesia"
The newspaper contends that, when
all is said, England and Germany are
together on one side, while France is
on the other. 1t is necessary TO leave
the chief of the French government
time to think and express the wish of
his best councils"
If troops are sent to Silesia, it Isl
now possible that, as a result OF Ger
many's stand, they may be routed
either through Czecho-Slovakia or by
way of Antwerp or Danzig. In either.
case they would proceed to the Silesiau
plebiscite district through Poland.
1t is understood that Marshal Foch
is going to Warsaw early in August,
accompanied by General Weygand. who
intervened in the Polish situation 3
year ago, when the Bolsheviki were
at the gates of Warsaw. Although the
visit Is in response to an invitation
from the Polish government, it NAV
have more than a formal significance.
The German demand that any ynoyas
ment Of troops must bear the indorss-
ment Of all the powers which are enc
gagged in policing Upper Silcsia is am
noying to the French. Many persons
here have suspected that England
and Germany are already in agreements
as to how Upper Silesia is to be dI-
vided. This is pointed to as RESPONSE
BILE. for the similarity of the British
and German moves against France to-
prevent BRAND from carrying ont hia
intentions. La Liberte says that En,r-
lands attitude has been an enceux-
agement to German resistance and be-
lieves that at the bottom of the whole
controversy is Great Britain's desire to
impose her European policy ON France
regardless of French interests ard sea
curity