The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-09-06
TREMENDOUS IN
WAS The.
GERMAN SWEEP.
CHANGES WILL BE NECESSARY
IN TERRITORIAL, ECONOMIC
AND POLITICAL CONDITIONS
IN ALL POLAND.

London, Sept. 1.-The German
sweep through Russian Poland
which at first conferred attention on
the brilliancy' of the military move
ment, it now being viewed for the
tremendous effects it has brought
about, territorial, economic and polit-
zeal, in that locality. Polish quartz y
here have summed up some of these
changes, drawing their data largely
from the writings of R. DmoUski, for
many years the Warsaw member of
the Russian Duuma and the spokes-
man there for the Polish element.
While a member of the Duma, Mr..
Dmowsh has been a severe critic of
the Russian regime, so that his view
of conditions has the apparent merit
of being Independent while at the
same time it comes from one init
nately familiar with the country
which the Germans have now over
run. Some of the more striking
changes resulting from the German
occupation are these:
The three branches of Poland now
united under German authority
German Poland, Austrian Poland anu
Russian Poland-have population
that gives Poland sixth place, in
point of rank, among the powers of
Europe. 1t comes next to Italy, and
exceeds in numbers all the Balkan
states put together Bulgaria, Ser
bia, Greece and Runlania; exceeds
also all the Scandinavian and Dutch
countries united-Norway, Sweden,
Denmark and Holland and exceeds
two of the next larger countries,
Spain and Portugal together. This
does not refer to the area of recent
military operations, but to the whole
range of so-called Poland as it has
been divided up to this time amcng
Russia, Germany and Austria.
Some of the British observers COM
pare the area of German occupation
with that of the Allies in South At
RIGA and the Pacific islands. But the
latter are tropical wastes recently
taken over for colonization, whereas
Mr.. Dmowski shows that Poland is
one of the most denseiy inhabited
sections of Europe, averaging 35 per-
sons to the square kiloneter, or more
than the thickly populated district of
France. It is also one of the richest
sections of Russia, with extensive
banking, industrial and commercial
organizations, coal mines and agri-
culture, largely in the hands of the
Polish districts, which has been car
ried on for some years, has not
changed the character of the native
people, which remains strongly Pol
ish.
The three parts of this extensive
Polish region now brought together
are: Prussian Poland, including the
four provinces of Poseny West Prus
STA, East Prussia and Upper silesia
with population of 100000 Of
which about half are Poles; Russian
Poland, including the province Of
Poland with II 100000 population
chiefly Poles, and what are known al
the annexed provinces of Kovno, Vii
ma, Grodno, Minsk, Mohilew and iVte
bsk, having a conglomorate popula
ton of little and white Russians
Poles, Lithuanians and Ruthenians
These are the three great Polisf
branches which are now wholly Of
largely under. German control.
The regime which the Germans vii
set up in Russian Poland is beins
awaited with the keenest interest b.
the Polish element, as it will dcterni
inc whether the policy will be t.
reconcile the Poles and bring tbs
three branches together again, or t
use this rich region for German col
onization, gradually Gerranizing ]
and extinguishing the separate Polisl
spirit. This latter has been tn" polio.
of Russian, and the difficulties it ha
had after years of effort indicate
the difficulties ahead for the German
regime, whichever course it adopts.
Mr.. Dmowski sums up Poland's pc
sition under Russia as that of a mill
tary occupation, with all the admins