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5 items (to illustrate report on the Upper Silesian Plebiscite Commission, May 1923)...
Catalogue reference: MPK 1/379
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This record is about the 5 items (to illustrate report on the Upper Silesian Plebiscite Commission, May 1923)... dating from 1921-1923 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPK 1/379
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1921-1923
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Description (What the record is about)
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5 items (to illustrate report on the Upper Silesian Plebiscite Commission, May 1923) extracted from FO 371/8810. 5 maps of Upper Silesia (now in Poland). (1-2) 'Upper-Silesian Plebiscite-Area': 2 copies of a map showing the frontier, district boundaries and railways. Reference table. Scale: 1:600,000. Overprinting showing: (1) the final results of the plebiscite by districts (Kreise); (2) zones A, B and C. Both initialled: D M M, 18 May, 1921. (3-4) 'Upper Silesia Plebiscite Area': 2 copies of a map showing mineral resources, coal-bearing areas, district boundaries and railways. Reference tables. Scale: 1:600,000. Printed at the War Office, 1923. Overprinting showing: (3) the Polish (Korfanty) line, the Percival-Marinis line, the Le Rond line, the Marinis variation, a German proposal and Sforza proposals; (4) alternative British and French proposals of 4 and 9 Aug [1921], and the League of Nations line. (5) 'Population Map of Upper-Silesian Plebiscite Area': showing the distribution of Poles and Germans, the boundaries of the plebiscite zone and districts, and railways. Reference table. Scale: 1:200,000. Produced by the British Section, Interallied Administrative and Plebiscite Commission, Upper Silesia. Initialled: D M M 18 February 1921. Dimensions: (1)-(2) 34 cm x 22 cm; (3)-(4) 28 cm x 21 cm (on sheets 33 cm x 27.5 cm); (5) 63 cm x 52 cm.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entries 3768-3770.
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