German Church May Be Put Under Polish Organ Cattowice, July 17.
Fundamental changes in Polish policy in Upper Silesia will begin on expiry of the Geneva convention, declared Marshal Grzesik to-day in the Silesian Parliament.
Among important laws passed was one establishing Polish as the official language with German as the auxiliary.
A second law gave the Governor of Upper Silesia extensive rights to determine the status of the Evangelical Church in East-Upper lelia, He is empowered to join this Church, membership of which 95 per cent, German, with another Church organization, and it is assumed he will make use of this right and white the Evangelical Church with the Augsburg Evangelical Church which is purely Polish snd has its central headquarters in Warsaw.
A bill is now being drafted to change the legal status of the Polish estates of Prince Pless, it is semi-
Officially announced in Warsaw. The bill would enable ihe sale and dividing up of the German prince's property. N xpress Poranny" adds that the Pless estate is one of the biggest in Europe. The Prince owns in Upper Silesia alone about 200,000 acres including three mines, two breweries, several sawmills as well as other industrial enterprises—Trans-Ocean Meet SEEKS TO
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