Evening star., 1921-05-09
French Inform Berlin Incur<
sions Into SiIesia Will
Violate Peace Treaty. +,
ALLIED COUNCIL DECIDED
ON APPEAL TO POPULACE
Korfanty Insurgents Occupy Whole
of Territory Up to Leaders Line. =,
Government Is Defended.

Fi ih" \ 500 .ated Press. -
fARIS, May a Berlin dispatch to
The Matin says the French ambassador
in that city has informed the German
foreign office that all incCrsions of Gefd
man government troops into Upper
Silesia would be considered by krance
as violation Of the Versailles, treaty.
Advices from Beuthen state that an
offensive against Poles. who have virT
tually taken over most OF Upper Silesiss
is being planned by German eirthan
guards. which are being concentrated
along the Oder river. 7.lnlll.
The interalied commission atu9ppeis
is reported to have issued an appeal to
the people of that city eXhortng them
to be- calm, and declaring that Oppeln
Will be defended against attacks. .''.'
France Replies to Note. ,r,at
France today replied to the nob1
which Germany last week addressed
10 the allies in which attention, WAS
called to the Polish insurgent move,
ment in Upper Silesia. The reply as,
Sures Germdny that the allied forces
in the district have no need of reut-
side help. 1t points out that the ttou-
DieS were due. at least in part. to
false rumors that the mining disiElIJ
Eas been awarded to Germany, and II
states that the allies are doing their
full duty under the circumstances and
already are re-establishing order II
Decide on Appeals to People.
The allied council of ambassadors,
with Ambassador Wallace present as
a representative of the United States
decided today in an effort to quiet the
unrest in Upper Silesia to ask the in7
terallied commission in the district 10
inform the population of the exact
state of affairs. explaining that no de,
cision had been taken as to division
of the territory.
The council also decided to urge
Poland TO control the Poles in connec,
ton with the existing conditions. :
Poles Hold Much Territory. :
by Gable TO The Star and Chicago Daily News
Copyright, 1921.
BERLIN. Germany. May 9.-From A
German military source the
writer learns that the Polish insur-
gents have occupied the whole of the
Upper silesia territory up to the
so-called Korfanty line, and have
stopped advancing. The latest de-
Velopments indicate that AdeIbert
Korfanty means to hold the area now
in Polish hands. and stand pat for
the time being. following the example
of Gabrielle d'AnnunZio in Fiume.
Publication today Of an officially
inspired statement exonerating the
Polish government from all blame
for the uprising caused a sensation.
as Foreign Minister Simons and other
high officials had repeatedly made
declarations in the reichstag charg-
ing Warsaw with completely in the
insurrectionary plot.
The statement further gives the
Polish government credit for honestly
trying to cut off the trouble zone in
the face of strong Socialistic and ma
tionalistic opposition. which favors
giving the insurrectionists as much as
sistance as possible in order perma-
nently to keep the district for Poland.
COmmunists Threaten Strike.
As IA result of Chancellor Fehren-
b&ch's announcement in the reichstag
that the regular army had been mobi-
Lied so as to be ready to intervene in
Upper SileSia, the communist party has
issued a proclamation calling a general
strike TO begin the moment German
troops fire the first shot. Chancellor
fehrenbach's explanation that the gov
ernment required explicit permission
from the interallied commission in
Silesia to intervene was received by
the reactionaries with hooting and
shouts of down with the allies