London, June 5.
Reuter is informed that the situation in Upper Silesia has not improved. The insurgents are blowing up bridges and preventing the passage of food trains, parties of Poles firing on the engineers who are repairing the lines. The Poles have seized Pless and have hoisted the Polish flag. The French gar-risen at Pless, however, remains in barracks.' The Poles have also surrounded Tarnowitz and seized the railway station there although the French remain in the town.—Reuter.
Protests from Berlin, London, June 6.
Herr Sthamer, the German Ambassador, has presented a Note 10 the Foreign Office, protesting against the Inter-Allied Commission's ultimatum to the German General Hoeffer, ordering him stop fighting as otherwise Allied troops would evacuate the German villages in the industrial region.
The. Note contends that compliance with this order would mean that the evacuated regions would "be exposed to a reign of terror by the. Poles. Moreover, the Note adds, the measures threatened by the Commission would make the un loosing of widespread civil war inevitable—R- riter.
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