No. 281 :
M. LÉON NÖEL, French Ambassador in Warsaw, to M. Georges Bonnet, Minister for Foreign Affairs. Warsaw, August 28, 1939. 8.15 p.m.

(Received at 11 p.m.)

AMONG other contradictions of false allegations, the Press publishes the following news, supplied by the Pat Agency:

1. The Vice-Voïvode of Silesia, M. Malhomme, accused by the German wireless stations of having ordered the maltreatment of women and children, has been seriously ill for a month and is under treatment at Warsaw;

2. Plundering by bands of insurgents in Silesia is a complete invention. Captain Blacha, who is alleged to be leading them, has been dead two years.

LÉON NÖEL.