The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-22
POLISH OFFICIALS
 SEE APPEAL FROM
 PLEB|SCITE RESULT
Germany Wins Overwhelming Victory In PIebiscite Held In Upper SiIesia
 Sunday
By Associated Press

London, March 21.-The official
 returns of the plebiscite in Upper
 sHecin as given by Dr. simons, the
 German foreign secretnrys in n
 telegram to London, are;
 Germany, 713,7Oo; Poland. 4e0.
 700, ir the whole piebiscfte nrea, or
 approximately 61 per cent in fa-
 vor of remaining German territory.
 and approximately 39 per cent for
 Incorporation in Poland.
 Washington, March 21.-Po1ish offi- cials here expressed the opinion to- day that Poland might appeal to the council of the ambassadors and to the League of Nations from the result of the upper Siiesian plebiscite should tho official count be confirmatory of the German victory unofficially reporteI ! today. They are so far without any news of the official decision.
 should an appeal be made to the League of Nations, it was said that an impartial tribunal might be asked to review the plebiscite. In such case, 1t was suggested that representative of the United States might be asked to sorve. as was done by the league in tho Aland Island dispute.
 It became known today that 1ass November request was made of the state department by the Polish gov ernment through the Polish legation here for the appointment by the United States of an American representative to observe the alleged Illegal methods which, it was charged. Germany was resorting to in order to further her designs upon the territory.
 In a note to the state department on November s, 1920 the attention Of the American government was called by the Polish government to power full means of resistance and means to defeat the purpose of the plebiscite, which the German government was or ganizing.
 Tt was of the utmost value," it was further reported that the United States government should realize how important looms before the world at present the question whether Upper Silesia will be allowed to remain at tached to Germany or will be allotted to Poland.
 WOULD CUT CLAWS
 "On that question hinges entirely the future of German militarism, for without Silesia Germany is sure never to be able to undertake her revenge.
 ''The Polish government considers i necessary to represent this condition and to bring to the attention of the United States that the peace of Europe will greatly depend on the issus which the present tdevelopments are allowed to take by those who are called upon to insure to the world just and. peace ful existence based on those principles which America was first to lay down in obtaining peace for the world"
 In 4 second note in December, the Polish government furnished the state depa rtment with documentary evidence of the alleged abuses which it was claimed the German government was practicing in the efforts to bring abou. a vote favorable to Germany in the plebiscite
 Among the alleged abuses there were recalled today the return to Upper Si- lesia of Germans from America for the purpose of voting as reported in press dispatches, despite the refusal of the state department to the informal re- quest of the government that natives of Upper Silesia residing in America should be permitted to leave the United States for this purpose. It was report ed by the United States at the time that as long as the technical state of
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