The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-09-19
i Nation That Has Lived Ii
/ Turmoil For Five Hundred
Years Accepts Kaiser's Offer
isl OF q Free Government
People Say They Feel Closer
10 the Germans Than they
Ever Did Toward Russians. !,

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VIII Germany restore freedom to
Poland?
This II the big question concern
Ing that country since the Germans
ceptursd Warsaw, and 1t Is felt that
the Yicters will concede the liberty
ana sstablish new Polish NATION,
Particularly as the German govern
meat promised II was not out for
agEFandisement. but to ayenge its
wFengs.
Roland would act as great buffer
between Russia and Germany in
preventing the former country from
attacking the Kaiser's troops when.
they are engaged with other inyad-
erf.
Al the same time, German military
prptsction IN Poland would allow
that nation to 60 back to its agricpl-
tqfal and artistic pursuits for which
1t is yell noted.
go confident were the Polish that
thsy we're to be kindly treated by
the Germans that they cheered the
vietors as they entered the great
capital Ct Warsaw and the peasantry
marched back to their farms with
their cattle with the confidence that
as long as the Germans remained
victors their work would not be dis
TURNED.
The feeling is that after i've CEN.
turtles Of being the bone Of conten-
ton and the battlefield Of nations,
Poland at last Is to win her freedom.
and be established as an indepen-
dent nation with her own absolute
government.
The Imperial German government
ct the beginning o. the war prom
Used that 1t was not seeking addi-
tiena1 territory and that in the
event 1t captured Warsaw, the cap
ital Of Poland. that nation would be
restored to its Own Independence
after 500 years Of warfare in which
1t was subjected to the main losses.
When the Germans marched as
vtctors into the city they were hailed
90 liberators for it was felt certain
that they will keep their promises
and there is no indication that this
VIII not be the case. When the de-
feated Russians fed they left the
Polish people in charge OF the cap
ttal and the latter turned the great
city Of contention over to the Ger
mans with the greatest OF conf-
dence.
It was understood that the Ger
mans were not a barbarous people
and that when they took a city they
were very considerate of the resi-
dents. So when the victorious troops
entered, the farmers, who long had
remained within the fortresses,
drove their stock back to their farms
and in this were not hindered. They
went back to their agricultural pur-
suits with great resolves and the
German Indifference or rather sane
ton OF their movement gave them
sutacient encouragement to recon-
tinua their farming.
PDHULACE
Treasured.
With this same air Of ease per-
vading the captured city Of War
saw, the city street cars continued
operations and banks and stores
were opened with as much conf
dence as Il an alien Zoe were not in
their confines. All Of which indi-
Gates that Germany is anxious to re-
store Poland to her rights as an in
dependent nation. Berlin declares
that It has never sought to keep Po-
land from her privileges and now
she surely is to finally obtain them.
Warsaw Is the third city in point
OF Aize in besieging Russia. 1t Is sit
uatsd on the banks of the Vistula
river. For 1--WE centuries this an
Gent capital Of Poland has been the
battle-ground Of kings and from each
successive ruler she has suffered
more and more abuse.
Before 1t has been unde. the rule
Of the Brandenbursers, The Aus
TRANS and the Russians, at one time
being In the possession Of the
Swedes. Yet 1t always was felt that
if.Germany should aver capture the
territory 1t would lend aid in estab-
fishing the land under its own SOW
ernment and exercising over 1t only
those rights that would secure the
best interests and proper protection
Of the new monarchy or republic as
the possible new country may be.
It appears to the interests Of the
Germans to establish Q new and
powerful nation in Poland, free By
the power Of the great forces OF the
Kaiser from invasion, and vet a
friendly nation willing to ward OF
from the German empire the attacks
possible coming from Petrograd at
a time when Germany is attacked
from other sides.
At the outbreak of the present war
the German government promised
Poland should be free II she were 10
stave OF the Russian attack. The
feeling is that Germany, single
handed. can drive the Russians
back without great EFFORT, bat the