Evening star., 1921-06-12
BY HENRY w. BUNN.

Copyright. 1921. BY The Washington st.r.)
" HE following is a brief summary Of the
news of the world for the seven days
ended June IL:
UPPER SILESIA-Last Sunday the
interallied commission ordered Gen. Hoefer.
commander Of the German defense force. to
withdraw his troops from certain territory won
from the Poles To which Hoefer replied that
he neither could. nor supposing he could. would
comply with the order. But, reasoned with by
the British commander. he promised the latter
not to advance farther unless the Poles should
attack. The German government protested to
London and Paris against the order: protest
which one might have expected the French to
take in high dudgeon. seeing that the order
was issued in the interest of pacifcation and
that the German government had normally ex
pressed it's disapproval of aggressive action by
the defense force composed mostly. all the
world knows. of volunteers from the
border).
But the French taking the situation
quite coolly and humorously; they did not get
at all excited over Hoefers impudence, and
merely smiled at the protest. which betrayed
the inevitable sympathetic interest felt by the
German government in Hoefer's cause Having
dispatched the naive protest. Berlin promised
to telegraph Hoefer, directing" him to obey
and withdraw.
Reports assert that through the various
measures of the newly arrived British
neutral zone has been definitely established,
the Poles retiring peaceably before the British.
1t remains to be seen whether the Poles
Germans will hamper the allied plans for paci-
hcation. Apparently action has been taken
on M Brands proposal of civilian commits
sion to study the Upper Silesian situation "a
vague report just received intimates that the
neutral zone is not yet definitely established,
that a little fighting is still going on. The
report is rather pessimistic.)
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A frnn Nnn oh tod
June s stated that the Bavarian einwohnerwehr
had decided to dsarm before June 80 Such
action would remove the chief immediate OBJ
stacle in the path of the London program 1t
is discouraging to have no confirmation of the
report. Should the einwohnerwehr not dis
arm by June 30 the French would on July /
occupy the Ruhr basin. and then what would
happen to DR.. Wirths government of fulfill
ment" and the London program? DR.. Wirth
feels that his tenure Of power is precarious any
way. To be sure. after his speech the other
day to the reichstag. in which he disclosed a
dismal prospect of taxation. retrenchment and
sacrifice (no light but rather darkness visible)
for the German people. he received a vote of
confidence: but only because the independent
socialists supported him. and the peoples party
members abstained from voting The indepen-
dent socialists not to be counted on; and
violent opposition from the peoples party is
to be feared. DR.. Wirth doubts whether he
can get from this reichstag the legislation re-
said. he contemplates dissolution of the reich
stag and new elections; most important
matter.
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GREAT BRITAIN-Mr. Lloyd George served
notice on June that settlement of the coal
strike must be reached within two weeks or
the governments offer of f1O,0OO,OOO to ease
the fall of wages would be withdrawn. This
started new negotiations between the executive
committees of miners and mine owners no
government representative being present. The
owners committee made new wages offer
said to be much more generous than any
previous one. The miners committee thereupon
called delegate conference. and the latter
ordered ballot of all the miners on the
owners proposals for the coming Wednesday,
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RUSSIA-Several important congresses have
been held in Moscow of late-the trade union
congress- the economic congress, the all-Rus-
sian congress of the communist party To
these bodies Lenin expounded his new economic
program and they voted assent Whether