Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-12
ALLIES DISAGREE
ON SIlESlA, TURN
TO NATIONS LEAGUE
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refer the Upper Silesian question K
the League OF Nations" said Mr.. Lloyt
George upon leaving the council meet.
| ing shortly before noon. Our deci'
sion WAS unanimous"
did Ambassador Harvey VOTE In
uuircd correspondent.
II said.' replied the prime minister
that our decision was unanimous.
VIII Send More Troops to Sllesla.
On the question of additional troops
for upper Silesia. the Supreme coun-
ell adopted In principle a plan for send
Ing reinforcements after the League
OF Nations has handed down its de-
cision on the Silesian question. Great
Britain. Italy and France each to send
its share Meanwhile the Supreme
Council is sending warning to the
German and Polish governments that
order must be maintained in the dis
puted territory.
Mr.. Lloyd George expressed the
opinion that there would be no trouble
provided the high commissioners were
Instructed to show strict imp.rtiality-
Reverses Stand on Reinforcements.
The Council at it's sessions early
this week decided the sending of re-
lnforcements was not necessary for
the time being, but the decision now
taken indicates somewhat of a change
in the viewpoint of the body as a
whole. The decision not 10 send troops.
it was indicated at the time, was be-
cause il appeared that an agreement
on the whole question of Silesia was
imminent, but. as the situation devel-
oped obstacles in the way of an adj
justment satisfactory TO both France
and Great Britain became apparent.
leading up 10 tho virtual deadlock In
the Council which was broken only by
today's decision 10 refer the whole
matter TO the League of Nations
In turning over the entire question
to the League. the Supreme Council
has requested the Leagues Council
ITO consider the matter as Of the ut
most urgency and TO make its report
at the earliest time possible"
Justice for English at Leipsic.
Just before Mr.. Lloyd George left
the Council Solicitor-General Pollack
and Commander Talcott, the British
cused OF war crimes which We're tried
by the German court at Leipsie, APP
peared before the Council and present
ed their report, which had been COM
municated TO Mr.. Lloyd George last
night The report stated it was con-
sldered justice had been done az the
Leipsic trials as regarded the English
cases. with the exception that the
sentences were too lenient in one or
two instances. but that justice had not
been done in the French and Belgian
cases.
Allies 90 Report on ~Brute Trials.
The reports declared. however, that
Ii appeared TO be impossible to take
proceedings to reopen and retry the
cases. for many reasons, including the
great costs and the dropping of the
matter was advocated.
The action taken by the Council
after hearing the reports vas to re-
quest the allied representatives who
had attended the LeIpsic trials to make
reports TO their governments concern
ing what attitude they judged the al
lied countries should adopt toward this
German court
The decision TO refer the whole
Silesian problem to the League of
Nations was unanimously approved
later at a meeting of the council.
Mr.. Lloyd George left Paris on the
regular noon train. He was accom-
panied by Sir Maurice Hankey and Is
members of his staff.
L. :. VIII Drop Ont
Ambassador Harvey told the council
this morning that the United States
government had thought from the be-
ginning that the Upper Silesian ques-
tion was purely a European one, and
as IL now was to be referred tc the
League of Nations on which the United
States was not represented, he thought
he would be interpreting the view of
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