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Itrrlin, Marrh 21. [
The net result of the T'pper Sllesian
plebiscite has been as was expected.
Germany winning- the manufacturing
centres and Poland the most Impor
tant mining region.
But while the early news of the vote
brought from the German press a fan
fare of triumph, in official circles it is
feared that the geographic division of
the vote will* give the allied supreme
council a too ready ethnographical au
thorization for a policy of partitioning
Upper Silesia, which flt^ierto has been
industrially an integral unit. This
tone Is also reflected in later press
comment, which fc'urn Germany may
yot los* tin- r:<?'i mining and iron
iTUj.ntjfHCturinsr district.
Almost complete returns, r*cco \f.
to despatches from lieu then, '
roughly that the Germans poll<
per cent, and the Poles 40 per ce
the votes. The northern plelr
area is all German and also a
Jorlty of tho cities. The Poles
won the southern agricultural r?
around PI ess and Rybnik with '?
cent, of the votes cast there, t
name time the Poles cwrriod tho i < i ?
trial districts around BootlK'i, Kit
wltx and Jarnowltz, but tho cities
themselves voted German.
The northern third ot' the province
;iud that part west of the Oder River
went German, while thi Pole.- car
ried th remainder, except the lurg*
towns. Genera' " r'-nnfacturlng
districts and
Polish.
>>l?h?r Ei
Neither conte-- <
fled. each predicting a 76 p?.i ? r.
victory. Ak ;i whole. howevor, the
Poles arc more please! than are the
Germans. because the whole of the
plebiscite return* are sufficient to sub
stantiate the Polish claims regarding
j i<n industrial triangle Poles in Paris
have expressed the idea that in Upper
Rllesii there may bo established a
linguistic frontier.
