§ Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHYasked the Prime Minister if he is aware 1576W that in certain districts in Upper Silesia the Allied forces are taking over territory from the German defence force, and thus allowing the Polish irregulars and insurgents to occupy this territory; that the Poles are committing outrages against the civil population and are trying to reduce certain towns holding out against them by hunger; and what has been the results of the recent visit of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Paris and his Conference there on the situation in Upper Silesia?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. Reports have been received tending to show that outrages have been committed against the civil population, but in the present disturbed state of the country it has not as yet been possible to verify these reports adequately. Food supply has necessarily been interrupted, but the Inter-Allied Commission have taken steps which have ameliorated the situation in this respect. As regards the last part of the question, I would refer the hon. and gallant Member to the answer which I gave to a Private Notice question to-day.