Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-17 | Page 4 | Germans bare 'Plot' of Poles

GERMANS BARE 'PLOT JF POLES Purported Plans for Seizure of Silesia Are Taken From Courier BERLIN. Sept. 15- (By the Asso-ciated Asso-ciated Press.) The foreign office today to-day exhibited type wrltU'ii documents In Polish, military map and other naterlul comprising order and report re-port alleged to have loen taken from a Polish courier, who. It Is said, attempted at-tempted to swim the border strcajn; between Beutheo and Sosnowlcc, on the night of July 30 The government biiS been In possession of what It terms concrete evidence supporting Its aaser-1 aaser-1 tions that the Poles he v. I" en ut-t ut-t mptinc a Violent conquest of Upper Silesia for six weeks The courier Is said to have been halted by n border patrol, who, although al-though attacked by two other men, I wrested the pouc h from the courier The documents are said to reveal ! existence jof a widely ramifying secret J Polish orr.mlzatlon. rlraftcd on the minute plan for action with urnuJ lorces. These forces are said to have nuni-bered nuni-bered I t .TOO on July 1 In addition, !hc foreign office report shows, a "Polish "Po-lish home guard," was also organized Some secret documents captured by the Germans give a list of Polish lea.l- is identified with the movement ami what tin- report terms their aliases The seizure of a so-called "opera-lion "opera-lion base." Is said to Ur indicated In the documents as the prune ol'Ject of I the IJan-Polish secret organization. According to the foreign office state-I state-I in. nt, local flKhtlng units which have le n organized, were expec ted to suffice suf-fice to strike a quick Initial blow. Selling the mines and industrial plants land breaking up German Interference, j It la tho expressed belief In official qv.arters here the plan was concocted bj Hen- Karf.mty. Polish member of I the relchstag. who has been advocating advocat-ing withdrawal of German troops from Silesia rn