"Here is another example of the utter helplessness of the Inter-allied Commission and its officials:
"On May 14, a train carrying 700 refugees from Rybnik was stopped by Polish insurgents, despite a safe conduct signed by the Polish commander and the escort of three Allied officers and fifty French soldiers. All the fugitives, with the exception of women, children and old people, were kidnapped; four of them, after being seriously ill-treated, were shot for no reason in the forest near Tarnowitz; among them was a 14-year-old high school student, Haase, from Rybnik.

Investigation

On May 14, 1921, junior high school student Rudolf Haase from Rybnik with several others fleeing in Markowice on the orders of the local communist insurgents, was removed and arrested. The commander is described as a tall, slim man with short brown hair, golden complexion with heavy eyelids. After twenty-four-hour imprisonment, they were supposed to be put on trial in court martial. During the march there Haase was murdered by his escort.
I ask for the investigation into the perpetrator(s) and assure a reward of 10,000 marks to the one who seizes the perpetrator(s) or brings him up so that judicial punishment can take place.
I reserve the right to pay the reward to the exclusion of legal recourse.
Opole, on March 29, 1922.

Regency President.