The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-22
P0LAND'S PLIGHT
TOLD IN REPORT
Rockefeller Foundation Hears
From Its Agents in
That Land.
JEWS NEEDS GREATEST

The Rockefeller Foundation received
yesterday from its war relief commits
%sioners. Ernest y. Bickneli and Eliot
Wadsworth, n cable message saying that
they had made a careful inspection OF
the situation IN Poland east of the light
ing line. including Gaiicia. and OF the
Warsaw district. The lumber of refugees
there is very large and their need -
great, but is being met by the Central
Citizens Committee. which Is well or
ganized and IL in close touch through
various local committees with Galicia.
Expenditures for relief are amounting
TO about $500, 900 n month.
commissioners Bicknclf and Wads-
worth say that while IT IL impossible to
reach this territory with supplies from
America money lis much needed to carry
the work along. They recommend that
Polish relief committees IN America for
ward their funds to the Central Citizens
Committee of Warsaw as the best
method Of helping that part of Poland.
For the care of Jewish refugees III
the same region. the chief burden In
now borne by u committee or rep
resentative Jews of Warsaw. This COM
mittee. Of which Stanislaw Williamson
Is chairman. has official recognition and
Is now taking care of 10000 refugees.
These are chiefly people from smaller
communities who have fled to Warsaw
The committee is handling the problems
OF shelter. food and employment with
efficiency. drawing its funds from the
Central Jewish Committee In Petrograd.
which acts as the source OF supply for
the local relief committees Of other
centres. The chairman OF the Jewish
committee in Petrograd is -ron .tlex-
andre de GinsburE. The Rockefeller
commission recommends that al per-
sons In America wishing to relieve drsti.
tuition among the Jews send their money
10 Baron de Ginsburg's committee.
From the information received yes
terday the Rockefeller Foundation infers
that the relief of restitution on the
Russian side Of tho firing line is eff
GENTLY handled and that the most urgent
need for outside aid IL for the relief
Of the Jewish population.
The latest Information In regard to
the need In that part of Russian Poland
within the German and Austrian lines
comes from Carleton Gibson OF the
Commission for Relief in Poland. lie
reports that the conditions there are
much worse than the worst in Belgium
and northern France. and that the
people are actually starving.
Rread is the most urgent need. Thus
far the efforts Of the Commission for
Relief In Poland to secure grain from
neutral countries in Europe have been
unsuccessful. The only source Of
supply would seem TO no. the United
States and Argentina. but grain from
either Of these countries destined for
Poland would have to he transmitted
through Germany either by way Of Rot
tcrdam or the Baltic, aud this would
require the am toleratlon from the
British and French Governments tina
they have shown in the case OF ship
m"nts TO Belgium. which would come
equally within German control. but are
s~afeguarded by the guarantees unl,f
which the Commission for Relief In BEL
gum is operating. The German Gov
has made similar guarantees
for grain TO be- imported into Poland.
but no arrangements nave yet been ef-
fected for bringing this about.