Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-19 | Page 5 | Situation in Upper Silesia Very Grave

Situation in Upper Jilesia Very Grave ' BERLIN. April 18. The situation in upper Silesia is very serious, according accord-ing to a semi-official dispatch received here today. A general strike is threatened, threat-ened, which will reach all the trades (and professions. Officials say the strike will come as a consequence of the entente commission's alleged "interference "in-terference in tho administration of justice jus-tice and the political rights of Siles-ians Siles-ians in the plebiscite area." Mass meetings were called for today in Oppeln. Kattowitz, Kocnigschuette, Cleviu and other centers to determine deter-mine upon joint action. The semi-official statement charges thath the French general Lorond, head of the intcr-allied commission in upper up-per Silesia, "is displaying pronounced pro-Polish partiality and working for the complete severance of tho plebiscite plebis-cite area from Germany." French Threaten Strikers. LONDON, April 18. With reforence to the threatened strike in Silesia, a dispatch to Reuter's from Berlin says the" French authorities have threatened if ike railway men strike that the frontiers Avill beopened and the Polish Pol-ish troops permitted to come through. Tho dispatch adds that, according to German report, the determined attitude atti-tude of the workers induced tho French commander to make officers who were accused of 111 treating workers work-ers apologize and that the workers have been paid compensation ranging from 1,000 to 3,000 marks. oo