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Image 1 of Upper Silesia. HANDBOOKS PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE HISTORICAL SECTION OF THE FOREIGN OFFICENo 40 D 6 Cl no 40 Copy 2 UPPER SILESIA LONDON PUBLISHED BY H M STATIONERY OFFICE 1920- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 2 of Upper Silesia.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 3 of Upper Silesia.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 4 of Upper Silesia.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 5 of Upper Silesia.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 6 of Upper Silesia.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 7 of Upper Silesia. tSS HANDBOOKS PREPARED UNDER TH DIRECTION OF THE HISTORICAL SECTION OF THE FOREIGN OFFICENo 40 iol ifoy UPPER SILESIA LONDON PUBLISHED BY H M STATIONERY OFFICE 1920- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 8 of Upper Silesia. library of congress received FEB 261921 documents urviatoN- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 9 of Upper Silesia. EDITORIAL NOTE d In the spring of 1917 the Foreign Office in connexion with the preparation which they were making for the work of the Peace Conference established a special section whose...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 10 of Upper Silesia. It must be understood that although the series of volumes was prepared under the authority and is now issued with the sanction of the Foreign Office that Office is not to be...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 11 of Upper Silesia. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE I GEOGRAPHY PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL 1 Position and Frontiers 1 2 Surface and River System Surface 2 River System 2 3 Climate 3 4 Sanitary Conditions 4 5...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 12 of Upper Silesia. TABLE OF CONTENTS 0 4o IV ECONOMIC CONDITIONS page A Means op Communication а Roads 22 б Rivers and Canals 22 c Railways 23 B Industry 1 Labour 24 2 Agriculture a...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 13 of Upper Silesia. gggj TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE C Commerce 1 Domestic a Principal Branches of Trade 37 b Towns 37 c Organizations to promote Trade and Com merce 38 2 Foreign 38 D Finance...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 14 of Upper Silesia.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 15 of Upper Silesia. Upper 1 SilesiaJ I GEOGRAPHY PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL 1 Position and Frontiers Upper Silesia 1 or the Regierungsbezirlc of Oppeln lies between 49 50 and 51 11 north latitude and 16 55...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 16 of Upper Silesia. 2 GEOGRAPHY No 40 for a curve designed to leave the town of Troppau to Austria It then continues in a northwesterly direc tion as far as the boundary of the Regierungsbezirk...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 17 of Upper Silesia. S RIVERS CLIMATE 3 of Upper Silesia for 87 miles to the Middle Silesian boundary South of the frontier the upper Oder and its tributaries are mountain streams liable to sudden floods...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 18 of Upper Silesia. 4 GEOGRAPHY No 40 The rainfall is distinctly below the average for Prussia the annual mean being 25 in 647 mm The months with the greatest rainfall are July and August The...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 19 of Upper Silesia. HEALTH RACE o As in other regions on the eastern frontier of Prussia the races are not evenly distributed over the Regierungs bezirk The five Kreise west of the Oder are all...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 20 of Upper Silesia. 6 GEOGRAPHY No 40 The figures show a fall of 3 per eent between 1900 and 1910 in the percentage of Poles to the total popula tion and suggest that great as...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 21 of Upper Silesia. Upper I SiiesiaJ RACE AND LANGUAGE 7 tesx I ill during the past hundred years except in the six larger towns where the fall in the proportion of Poles is due to...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 22 of Upper Silesia. 8 GEOGRAPHY ho4o 6 Population Distribution The population of Upper Silesia was in 1910 about 2207000 That of the agricultural districts is fairly evenly distributed It is thinnest about 150 to the...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 23 of Upper Silesia. Upper 1 SiiesiaJ POPULATION 9 tions of over 10000 the largest being Zabrze j4iich in 1912 bad no fewer than 59000 inhabitants The German element is larger in the towns than in...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 24 of Upper Silesia. No 40 II POLITICAL HISTORY Chronological Summary 1524 Purchase of Jagerndorf by George the Pious 1537 Covenant of succession between Liegnitz and Branden burg 1546 George Frederick deprived of Ratibor and Oppeln...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 25 of Upper Silesia. Upper SilesiaJ PRUSSIAN CLAIMS 11 be well however to recapitulate those parts of it with which the Prussian claims culminating in annexation are connected Subdivision of SilesiaIn the course of the four...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 26 of Upper Silesia. 12 HISTORY Mo 40 sequence of the part played by John George in the Bohemian Revolution the duchy was confiscated and bestowed by the Emperor on a member of another family Claims...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 27 of Upper Silesia. Upper Silesia J PRUSSIAN CLAIMS 13 tentatively revived his Silesian claims These were however not admitted by the Emperor and remained in abeyance up to the death of the Emperor Charles VI...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 28 of Upper Silesia. 14 HISTORY No 40 since 1737 Nevertheless in the First Silesian War there were sporadic instances of dislike to the invaders and bands of Silesians inhabitants of the country dis tricts carried...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 29 of Upper Silesia. Upp3r I SilesiaJ ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 15 of an excise Frederick refused the appeal of the Silesian nobility to be allowed to share the privileges of the Prussian nobles with regard to taxation...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 30 of Upper Silesia. 16 HISTORY No 40 1800 lie was deeply impressed by tlie success of Prussian administration The value of his evidence is enhanced by the circumstance that his account of Silesia was given...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 31 of Upper Silesia. 17 EFFECTS OF NAPOLEONIC ERA cession of Silesia was discussed both in France and in Prussia as compensation for the indemnity payable to Napoleon To avoid this necessity two steps were taken...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 32 of Upper Silesia. 18 HISTORY STo 40 5 Silesia after the Congress of Vienna After the European settlement the old boundaries of Silesia were enlarged by the addition of part of Upper Lusatia which though...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 33 of Upper Silesia. S AFTER CONGRESS OF VIENNA in a follower of Hardenberg and where industrial develop ment produced a rapid growth of liberal opinion When the system of provincial estates was established the Silesian...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 34 of Upper Silesia. 20 No 40 III SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONDITIONS 1 Political Silesia sends 35 members to the Reichstag and 65 to the Prussian Diet Its political influence as repre sented in the Reichstag...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 35 of Upper Silesia. POLITICAL CONDITIONS 21 Upper n Silesia J to have passed away the political cohesion of Prussia would survive Is it quite certain that the eastern and western divisions that Pomeranians and Hanoverians...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 36 of Upper Silesia. 22 No 40 IV ECONOMIC CONDITIONS A MEANS OE COMMUNICATION a Roads In Silesia the main public roads are the provincial roads and the district Kreis roads which as elsewhere in Prussia...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 37 of Upper Silesia. SBSJ ROADS RIVERS RAILWAYS 23 Great quantities of coal from the mines of Upper Silesia reach the Oder by the Klodnitz Canal which connects Gleiwitz and Kosel a distance of 45 km...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 38 of Upper Silesia. 24 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS No 40 B INDUSTRY 1 Labour In 1907 30 per cent of the population of Silesia was dependent on agriculture and 43 per cent on other industries while in...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 39 of Upper Silesia. LABOUR 25 1 Upper i Silesia J for instance a miner got 617 marks and other workers below the surface 449 marks Women are poorly paid in all branches of industry Before...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 40 of Upper Silesia. 26 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS o4o Before the war the usual daily wages for agricultural work were as follows Marks Men summer 110 winter 10 Women summer 070 winter 050 Children over 10 040...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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