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Show ISM PEOPLE GROW RESTLESS Rioting in Former German Area Held Due to Official 'Delays in Taking a Vote BERLIN, Aug 0 In high official quarters U is said that the German government has hren consigned to the role of a m re on-loolc i In Hie uppt-r Slleslan n rla r. ;.. as i In- rights of that territory have been transferred to tin- Inter-allled governments govern-ments The present rioting in Kattowltz seeming! has come as no surprise to offlolal quarters, where for some time it has horn asserted thaj sufficient combustible material was accumulating accumulat-ing there to make such an outbreak logical consequence. Wheii Poland's fortunes of war began to diminish it was declared iher had come a pronounced pro-nounced chango In sentiment in the upper Silrsinn plebiscite districts which permitted the conclusion that If a vote were taken now II would show an overwhelming majority In favor of German PEOPLE IM1' I ll IN I While the workers and all classes of the population in upper Silesia are reported to be firmly determined l hale Germany -, neutrality rigidly observed ob-served in connection with the Rueso-Poiish Rueso-Poiish war. and while this attitude is belli-, ed to hav e her n the pretext for the present outbreak, in informal dls-cusgion dls-cusgion in official circles m Berlin, ii has been contended lhat the Inhabitants In-habitants of the plebiscite region were gradually finding their patience at an end as a result not only of the reported re-ported flagrant mannei in whih Polish Pol-ish propaganda was carried on and the continued alleged French excesses, but also because of the alleged inconclusive inconclus-ive altitude of the intir-allled commission com-mission toward establishing a fixed date for the plebiscite This reported cumulation of grievances Is declared declar-ed now to have been augmented by the neutrality factor, which finds tin populace a firm unit CONFLICTING D Us The German pfegs hitherto has been chary In its comment on the situation. situa-tion. While deploring the outbreaks In upper Silesia hccnusH, tt says, thev are llkelv still further to complicate Germany's tangled foreign situation, the Tngllsehe RundSChaU expresses the belief that the occurrences have given "evidence of a healthy national will which will prov- upper Silesia faithful to Germany when the ballots are counted." Die Grthelt denies that the outbreaks out-breaks Indicates sentiment In favor of allegiance to (Jermany This news- paper declares the populace primarily favors the strictest neutrality. "The upper Slleslan workmen decline to keep the watch on the Rhine,' there as our nationalists would have them.-' says the newspaper. |