The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-29
THOUSANDS FACE
 FAMINE TERR0RS.
 AROUND WARSAW
winter Adds to Suffering of Homeless Who Are Living in Abandoned Trenches Government Takes Charge of Meagre Food Supply and Soup Kitchens Are Established


 Warsaw. Nov. Hundreds Of the civil popuIation in the Warsaw dis tR1cf of Poland aret suffering for want of food A considerable percentage of this number still are homeless, liv- ing in ht1ts, caves and abandoned trenches
 The situation is more serious be- < cause of the immense number thrown out Of work by the almost complete paralysis of Polish industrieS Some workers have e1nnai grated to Ger-I many, where employment is plenti- fuI, but the great majority prefer to remain near their homes in the hope of better days Prominent Poles m all walks Of life maintain that drastic re- lief measures are necessary if whole sale deaths from starvation are to be preEentsds
 Such four as is now on hand is be- ing distributed by the Germans under the bread card system but only pota- toes are available in quantities. while thers is an acute Shortage of dried vegetab1es. meat fats and condensed milk
 Prices which all over Poland have risen to unprecedented heights, cannot be checked by the estabhshment of rlaxinurr1s it is claimed, because of the fear that Inportaticns then would cease altogether
 Suffering is especially acute among the Families of Russian rese-v1sts who formerly received regular payments rom the government Pensioners are now cut oif from their former incomes and the Russians are charged with having taken with them the funds of saving bank depositors-
 The country districts of Poland from one end to the others are bat tie scared barren and fire swept In the Warsaw governm enta1 district axrf1- : 1ages were burned by the rush. Many inhabitants who at first fled with the Russians, returned and placed them selves on the mercy of the Germans Many have already died of starvation and diseases superinduced by hunger. Mothers remaining alive are so un7 der-nourdshed they cannot nurse their men now rise at o'clock in the morn ing to get good places in the bread lines and not miss the chance to ob- tain some food at least. The horror of the situation is increased by a .seri- ous shortage of coal, due in part to Destruction of the mines and part to the inadequate railway facilities.
 Committees composed both Of Gen. tiles and Jews, with the assistance of the German government, are conduct Ing soup kitchens at Warsas$ and Lodz. distributing food ana fuel ] Warsaw, while numerous asyIu1ns and homes for young and old are in opera ton
 Lodz is trying to feed 300, GOO of it's half million population The authori- ties are holding a tight rein on the four supply. to make 1t last until the next harvest. HqmeIess peasants are being given lumber and tools to erect houses before winter living mean while in dugouts near their old homes. cooking on imbrovfsed hearths. The @iity of Lodz is paying pensions to the
 syes of reservfsts on the chance of being reina bursed later.
 Road building, railroad and br;dsa work are being carried on extensfve- ly in order that the unernpIoved may earn something. All these Y97.lss,,7as bring only partial relief however be cause of the shortage in number of articles of food which are i1nperative- 1y necessary.
 The German authorities are strn.. g1ing desperately with epiden1ics of d1seaSe which haves come as . res,,I+ of unsanitary conditions in the rav- aged district and are making slow I,,,t sure headway. ChoIera, typhofI fever. scarlet fever and dfphtheria have been stamped out, or are under control ir most districts. Statistics which an pear to be authoritative. show that from 250.00O to 350,OOo persons are being supported in Warsaw alone. This number fs steadily increasing.
 Meanwhile, funds raised for cIaritl able purposes have been virtually ex- hausted These funds, amounting to several million rubIes, were given by Polish and Jewish organizations, neu- tra1s and the Russian governmen ent. With this money. 1t has been possible -heretofore to distribute 1,250,O0O DOT do17S of soup, meat and bread nlof1fE1- ly. Less than one-third of these food supplies has been paid for by those who received them The cost of the food distributed free as amounted to 11E000 rubles month
 The food department of the iWarsav- ' government. which has beeh selling at cost prices. has been obliged to re- strict this work because of the ex- hanstlon of the supply of foodstuffs and the tmpoesibfIIty Of importing