Evening star., 1921-05-23
ENGLAND TO SEND
TROOPS TO AID Of
ALLIES IN S!lES|A
Decision to Reinforce Contin-
gent Results From Inter-
changes With France.
GERMAN COUP TO RETAKE
SEIZED AREA THREATENS
Fighting Going On All Along
Front-Teuton Armored Train
Routs Polish Insurgent Forces.
BY the Associated Press.

Routs Polish 1nsurgent Forces.
BY the Associated Press
LONDON. May :3.-The British gov
crnment has decided to send troops
to Silesia at an early date, it was an
nounced today.
The decision to send the troops re-
suited from interchanges between
Great Britain and France, and the
British force will be sent to reinforce
the allied contingents in Upper Si-
lcsia in the near future. The size OF
the force was not indicated in the an
nouncement, but it is understo ood that
not less than four battalions will go.
preferably the same troops employed
in Upper Silesia during the plebi scite
and later withdrawn to the Rhine.
The correspondent of the London
Times in Oppeln. reporting Germa n
irregular" military operations in
concentrating forces and making
preparations for fortnight. 1ndi-
cations. the dispatch said, point to a
determined effort to recover possess
The movement is regarded by the
Times correspondent as far more
serious than a mere reaction of the
German population against the in
surgents. He asserts that the inter-
allied commission was unable to pre-
now just as powerless to intervene.
Apparently the Germans have reg
ular army reserves at their disposal.
Poles Extending Control.
The Polish insurgents. according to
the dispatch, have been steadily con-
solidating their position and extend
ing their control over the Industrial
districts of Silesia. They are reported
TO have succeeded in starting work
again in mines. foundries and fac
tories. and now are squeezing the
allied authorities out of the towns
they still occupy in order to complete
their hold on the railway between
kattowitz and Gleiwitz.
Every sort of pressure is being en-
ployed to compel the surrender of
these two important towns. No food
is being allowed to enter them, but as
this has not proved effective, the
water and electricity supplies of Kat
towitz were cut of yesterday.
inhabitants Of BAuthen and katfovitx
have approached their local district con-
trollers, according to the dispatch, asd
have asked them to make terms with the
insurgents. declaring they were tired Of
waiting for the allies to do something
allied commissions power to restore
normal conditions or the ability of the
local garrisons to protect them If the
insurgents should decide to take the
towns by force.
Tho Times correspondent declares
that while the Poles are masters in the
industrial districts the Germans exercise
control over the northern and western
parts Of the plebiscite area. The frontier
between Silesia and Germany has vir-
tually ceased to exist. he says. and arms
and reinforcements are brought in and
Polish prisoners sent to Germany with
out hindrance.
Germans Threaten to Act.
Copyright. 1921.
NEUSTADT. Upper Silesia, May 21
tvia Berlin. May 23)-Contrary to the
assertions in the French newspapers.
the situation in Upper Siiesia is be-
coming worse and not better. The
German troops. which remained quiet
for time awaiting allied action. now
seem determined to take matters into
their own hands. The region behind
their front is seethlng with troop
movements. This morning the writer
saw 800 volunteers move up from
Ne.sse. while several thousand de-
parted from this city. whole Ba-
var!an regiment entrained here amid
the cheers and acclamations Of the
Inhabitants.
Tho efforts of the German govern
ment to hinder the enrolment Of
volunteers are apparently fruitless.
In Neisse young captain named
Schmidt told me that he came near
being arrested in Breslau yesterday
for refusing to disband his company
He claimed that his men had not hing
whatever to do with the German state,
that they gathered about him for pri-
vate purposes and that they would
disband by nobody's orders save his
own.
Fighting Ia going on all along the
front. especially in the region Of Op-'
peln. where a German armored train
did considerable execution among the
Poles. Sixty Germans were wounded.
German Police Storm AnnaberE.
BY the Assocsa ted Press.
BERLIN. May 23.-Reporting on the
the Montags Post today announces
that German piebiscite police stormed
Annaberg. which the Polish insur-
gents had held for three weeks. The
Poles lost three guns.
The Germans. adds tho newspaper.
also occupied the strategic point Of
Grosstein northeast of Annaberg.
capturing two mine throwers and
seven machine guns.
Kattovvit. Cut on.
By Csbis to Tho Star and Chicago Daily New.
Copyright 1921.
BERLIN. May s3-Reports from Up
per Silesia Indicate that tho situation
around Kattow1tz Is alarming. No d.
rect telephone or telegraph communi-
cations have been received here since
Thursday by the interallied commits
sion or tho newspapers There arc re-
ports of fighting In tho outskirts OF
the city and preparations among the
German Inhabitants to defend them
selves against the Polish Insurgents
Volunteer organizations with thou
sa nds of members are said to be
straining at tho leash. and It IL ex :
pected that they will disregard the
German governments orders and Will
try to relieve Kattowitz.