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Show France Will Send Relief to Her Men Paris France, it was declared in official circles Thursday morning, will send reinforcements to Upper Silesia, whether or not Great Britain joins in the movement. The French move will be made, it was declared, to insure the safety of the ten thousand French soldiers sol-diers already on the ground there. Premier Briand sent a note yesterday yes-terday in reply to the British note on the Silesian issue, expressing hick of conviction that the supreme council, could serve any useful purpose by eon-, vening before measures are taken toi assure order and provide for the sec-; urity of the allied troops now in the; district. - News received here Wednesday from Opeln was far from reassuring. The attitude at-titude of the German press, as inter-, preted by the French fiispatches, was illV.1V l'"b'J L , ... V. l. v v. France, it is declared, recognized that danger threatens from the side of the Poles, as well as from the German Ger-man side, making it doubly necessary, ;n the French view, to increase the allied al-lied troops. Precautions; first, decisions afterwards, after-wards, probably will- remain the French view, it is indicated, unless there are unforseen developments. French official circles received a distinct dis-tinct shock from the British government's govern-ment's reply, and in some quarters today to-day Anglo-French relations are described de-scribed at critical as a result. The French government is said to ; have been unprepared for the "sever-1 ity and unyielding tone" that this morning's newspapers indicate characterizes char-acterizes the British communication. Editorial comment suggested that the British prime minister, David Lloyd George, acted entirely too hastily has-tily in refusing to agree with the FVench view that additional allied troops were necessary in Upper Silesia. The commentators also declared that he failed to inform himself fully, regarding re-garding the necessity of prompt allied action, and added that had he waited a few hours longer, he would have had bmfore 'him a unanimous report from the allied higli commissioners at Op-pein, Op-pein, in which it is urged that immediate im-mediate reinforcements be sent. ' While most newspapers agree that the incident brings Anglo-French relations re-lations to another delicate point, Le journal says the problem is not insoluble in-soluble and in its flnul analysis, not of a nature to seriously trouble the comity of aJJ-ied relations. |