Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-26
british FORCES
| MOVE ON S|LES|A
Four Battalions Go From Rhine
Region-sooo Other Troop
ers to Follow
MAY DEMAND BIG BERTHAS
nv the Associated Press

london, May 2G. -Four bnttalions of
British trooDS on the Rhine began their
advance 20 T'nDcr Slesia TODAY to re-
enforce the Allied troons already there.
The transfer Is expected tn be CON
plated by thc end ~ the week.
II was semi officially announced to-
day that additional forces of four bat
talions of British troops. tntaling some
5000 men. win be sent to the disturbed
area. Tho sources from which these
additional troops will be drawn were
not disclosed.
Srcciai Cobis Dispatch. Copyr1hi. 1927
Paris. May 2G.---The Council Of AM
bassadors yesterday denied the Gcrman
Governpent's request 10 be permitted
TO maintain nr to manufacture anti
tank rifles. The Germans sent q note to
the Allies protesting against being
forced to surrender their anti tank
weapons on the ground that they we're
not specifically mentioned in the d's-
armament clauses Of the treaty and
therefore were not included in the ma
terial ordered destroyed.
The Ambassadors adopted the advice
of the military experts who showed
them table Incorporated into the
treaty specifying what arms Germany
would be permitted to retain. The table
did not include anti-tank rifles and
Therefore II was ruled that all arms
not mentioned must be destroyed.
It is believed this decision provides
n basis for demanding the big Bprthas.
which were not mentioned in the treaty.
but neither were they mentioned among
the arms Germany was permitted to
keep.
Spceioi Cable DiSpdtch. Copvrioht. 1871
Headquarters First Iilsurgeut Divi.
sion. Oder Front. May 26.-Dcspite
the confusion bordering on panic
which, in the early hours after the
| Germans launched n counter drive on
Leschnitz and Annnberg. threatened Ia
disrupt the entire insurgent front at
the junction of the Oder and Northern
groups. the prospect OF preserving the
First Infantry Division intact today
| appeared brighter.
Odds and ends Of rctreatins hat
| tnlions. with three armOred cars. which
have been reassembled on tho road
north Of Slavcnsk. vigorously attacked
| the German forces advancing from
| I.eschnitz. Unlike the earlier counter.
attacks the new insurgent drive ended
In the flight Of the Germans from
Snlesche and Lichina
Masses Of armed men, running pcll'
nell across oat fields, we're seen by tn,
correspondent from the elevated grount
near Salcsche. Some were Carryin,
wounded on stretchers. More thar
fifty in killed were left on the field;
/ where the ndversarics met.
The prisoners captured by tho in
snrgcnts told divisional staff officer
thc order to retreat was given whcr
| the German command learned tho in
surgents had blown up the raiwa!
bridge across the Oder in tho German
rear. thus cutting the path of tw,
armorcd trains which had turned barl
the advance of Slavcnsitz.
Wild confusion reigned throughou
! the zone of the German counter often
sivc when the correspondent. under tn
protection of an American flag, drov
through the region behind the retreat
| ing rebel forces.
Thousands Of refugees, peasants an,
townsmen we're carrying on their back
or in carts what belongings they ha,
time to pick up before the German
arrived. Armored cars put up som
defense against the Germans. bu
finally. with all their machine guns gu
OF commission. the Poles retreate,
slowly southwark from Lcschnitz L
Slavensitz ito await re- endorsements TO
fresh counter attacks.