Evening star., 1921-05-25
DIVISION Of SI[ESIA
BETWEEN GERMANS
ANDPOLES|S IS URGED
New Proposal to Settle Con-
troversy Believed Sugges-
ton of Great Britain.
WOULD BE HELD 80 YEARS
BY SPECIAL COMMISSION
French Deputies Expected to Vote
BRAND Confidence Today-Flght-
ing at Ratibor Continues.

Ev the Associated Press.
PARIS. May .5-The latest plan for
the settlement of the Upper Sileslan
controversy. supposedly Rrltisn suS-
c-cstion. is to give Poland and Ter
many. respectively. the communes
that voted in their favor at the re-
cent plehscite. but to hold the eh'ire
territory under control OF a special
commission for thirty years
Under the plan this commission
would be appointed by the league OF
nations and at the end of the thirty
car period the population of the re-
;-Ion would again be given the oppor-
tunity to express their wishes.
The exchanges of views between
London and Paris on the question are
continuing notwithstanding the oe,
late in the chamber of deputies. ano
:he feeling in French official circles
this morning was that the allies were
coming together.
Briand Confidence Vote Expected.
There seemed little question when
the chamber of deputies met TO-DAY
that the government of Premier BRAND
would be given a vote of confidence
lofore adjournment. The premier
address before the chamber of yesterday,
in which he declared the present situa.
ton did not necessarily call for armed
occupation of the Ruhr region OF
Germany was an evident d1Sappoint-
ment to many of his followers, but
1t did not appear that it would alien
ate many votes.
Newspapers of this city reflected the
disappointment felt in some quarters.
it having been expected that NJ
BRAND would take strong attitude.
While neither the chamber nor the
general public are altogether conS
~inced by the premierS arguments. 1T
is asserted. they continue TO extend
him confidence. Today's journals gen.
orally reserved comment, but the
Figaro expressed the opinion which
without doubt was held by large
section of the generl public.
The only question which matters
and which really interests the coun-
try" said this newspaper. is when
and how we are to be paid
Fighting Continues at Ratibor.
By Cable 10 The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright 1921.
RATIBOR. Upper Silesia. May "a
(via. Berlin. May oo).-Au night long
the Germans and Poles have been
shooting at each other in the out
skirts of the city ith trench mortars.
machine guns and rifles. The noise is
terrific, making sleep impossible. so
1t goes every night" say the citizens
of Ratibor.
Inc brldge over the Odef Is defended
by two detachments of Italian SOL
diers with machine guns behind stone
barricades. They have orders to blow
up the trestles in front of the Poles
il they attempt to enter the city. Some
900 yards beyond the river are the Ger
mans, and it is their patrol which is
now engaged with the Poles This
morning a raiding party of Germans
crossed the Oder below Ratibor and
captured twenty machine guns. 400
prisoners. and large quantities of
booty. They claim that twenty French
soidIers and one French major were
ia ken with arms in their hands fight
ing among the Poles. The Germans
kept a small foothold on the left bank
of the river.