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Show y FRAMING REPLY TO ANSWER OF HOLLAND qb tg g g g igi g . GERMAN MINISTER QF EIHCE WOUNDED AS BE LEAVES COURTROOM One Shot Strikes Official Following Fol-lowing Hearing In Suit for Alleged Libel EVACUATION OF UPPER SILESIA IS BEGUN i Teuton Troops Moving From District and-Allied Forces will Replace Them BERLIN, Jan. 26. Ma- j ) thias Erzberger, the minister ' j of finance, was wounded by a j ' shot fired at him today. j Herr Erzberger was shot as j i he was leaving the criminal ; I courts building after a hear- I ing in the Helfferich libel . ! suit. Only one shot struck ! the minister. The minister was slightly woitnded in the shoulder. -His assailant, who gave "his name j i as Oltwigvon Hirschfeld was 1 I arrested. i ; BERLIN, Saturday, Jan, 24 Ger-J man troops began evacuation of Up- J per Silesia today in accordance with ! the terms of the peace treaty which j 1 requires that the movement begin 1 within fifteen days after its ratifica-, ratifica-, tion. The first allied troops are expected to reach Oppelnon January 30. Evacu-ation Evacu-ation will be accomplished by zones, each of which will remain under a provisional pro-visional military administration under the interallied commission. The treaty provides for the occupation occupa-tion of Upper Silesia by a total of 1S,-000 1S,-000 allied troops. English, French and Italian troops will be used. The Lokal Anzeiger yesterday accused ac-cused the Poles of cutting telegraph and telephone wires and interfering with the conveyance of the mails in territories where plebiscites arc to be taken. The newspaper declares that the telephone connections with Allen Graudens and Osterodc have beer, j cut for the past few days. It also accuses the Poles of having severed at the frontier tho wire connecting Stettin and Posen. |