Bisbee daily review., 1915-03-28
WARSAW MAINTAINS ITS CALM ALTHOUGH
 IN FIGHTING ZONE
City Has Been Confronted With Problem of Caring for 100,- GOO Refugees But Life There Is Not Abnormal

hghtins zone than any other city of its size in Europe. and which has lived for months under the confined menace of German occupation. wears the astonishing aspect of a disinter- estcd observer for whom the fortunes or war have but a casual interest.
 This is the capital of the country whose sons almost equally divided are hsning half on the Russian anu half on the Austro-Germsn side.
 Warsaw is within thirty miles of the fierce, persistent and apparently mtiring German offensive. against which large part of the entire Rus sian army has been masscr. and is subject to an the ills which follow i'm Che wake of battle such as dearth of provisions and fuel. congestion and disease. The best farms and estates in Poland have been turned Into vast burial grounds. her pcoplc are homeless and starving and every day seems Co darken the prospect Of that regeneration of the Polish peo. pie into an independent nation. which IS the dream of every Pole. whether he is a Russian a German or an Ans. trian subject From the accumulated u.il Of the trenches. from the thop. sands ol graves where Russian. Ger man and Polish soldiers have been hasily buried. cholera typhus and typhoid are said to be spreading. and in the opinion Of military doctors when thc suftcuing of the ground and meltine of the streams begins i'm early spring, disease win run like Gre through Poland
 Over one hundred thousand renr. gees. have thrown themselves upon Cue mercy Of the various committees or Polish relief in Warsaw. have brought into the city five known cases ol cholera The cases have beor promptly isolated. and an who hay, been subjected to the contagion have been deported into the country War. sa" Is at present suffering from a dcsrth of coal since the supply from 'outhern Poland in the Chenstokoyau region has been cut off by the Ger man invasion.
 One then is entitled to feeling of amazemeut at the undminished spirit and the apparently normal life which exist in the city which one reasons ought to be trembling on the verge ol catastrophe The streets are gay with laughter and song. the cafes are niIed until late at night. and the opera and ballet are playing Co mI houses lt ls curious. indeed to seen these . audiences giving way to the maeinarv ! troubles Ot the actors on the st8ra while Teal trouble awaits them ba. yond the door 0f the theatre. On the former German advance upon War saw which approached within seven miles Of the city. one theatre con unuad it's performances without in- terruption. while the booming of tbe enemy's guns could be distinctly heard over the voices Of the actors.
 Club life goes on as usual An American correspondent was in thc rooms Of one of the best known War saw clubs on the occasion of A recent aeroplane raid. Four men were play ing auction bridge Two bombs were dropped. one within two hundred yards ol the club. Two of the men siroIled carelessly To the window and watched the two German Taubes vol. plane recklessly from am attitude oE aDout live thousand feer Co dis tance Of approximately two thousand drop a bomb apice and circle upward and westward with two Russian uaroplanes in close pursuit Russian shrapnel was directed at the two Ger man aeroplaues from a battery on tbo outskirts oi the city. but thp speed oi the acroplaues was SO great that the grey bursts of smoke fell harmlesslv In the rear The other two men m the bridge game were more interested jim their hands These aerupIanc raids, have indeed become such com monplace occurrence that instead Of hurrylng in doors as the residents of the city used Co do when Che appear. ance of the German Taubes was an alarming novelty, the streets are now crowded with mildly interested spec talors, who il they have no other business ou hand make it a point to Doe on the streets on clear afternoons at two o'clock. at which time the Ger man aeroplanes apear weather per mltting with unerrinp regularity.
 Before We have tea" says a timid looking Polish woman. let's plan co -o out and see lhe aeroplane raid 20 One might almost think that it Alas a sporting event of the season, which it had become fashionable to attend
 Meanwhile the wounded are brought back from the trenches. and a cOnu- nuous line of soldiers. infantry. mounted infantry cayalR aud long provision trains file through the city 10 take their place in the driug line. Put the endless activity, the count less episodes. any one of which would in ordinary times provoke enXiety and alarm. seem only tO act az sti. mulant upon the oyerwroueht nerves of this remarkable capital One soon lcarnes that the nervous laughter which one hears everywhere in War saw is not far from a sob and the apparent unconcemed only the pithl bravery of a nation that has learned not Co cry when it is hurt