Arizona republican., 1915-08-06
POLISH WOES
 RELIEF ASKED
X Picture of Ruin Which Has Fallen Upon That Country Recalling the Patriot. Ko sciuska's Epi- taph. '"Finis Polanaie"


 l The following letter addressed by 1 Mme. Marcella Stengel Sembrich. as sistant treasurer of the American Pol ! ish relief committee of New York to ] Dwigh: E. Heard of the Red Cross has | been received at this office: l MT. Dwight B. Heard,
 Phoenix.
 Arizona
 | My dear Sir:
 am in receipt of a most courteous and sympathetic letter from his excel lencY. Governor c. w P Hunt, in which he makes the suggestion that it might De advantageous to address let ters to the individual members of the Red Cross committee in your state, which members he Las been kind enough to name to me. am enclosing to you appeals such as we have sent to the secretaries of the boards of trade.and civic associa- tions throughout the United States. which will outline to you the work we are trying to do. and the interest we hope to create in what is generally con ceded 70 be the most devastated portion of the European battle-ground. It seems to us here. from the tragic cable grams that have appeared in the daily press. confirmed as they are by ire quent Vagrant letters that get to us after much difficulty. that the thought of the misery now being endured by the hardest in those countries, must sure lv invade the consciousness of the American people. and awaken them to new efforts toward arneliorating the dreadful conditions abroad. When I remember all that your magnificent Red Cross committee are doing, I all most hesitate to follow Governor Hunts suggestion and address you on behalf of my poor country people. and yet it is my duty to do so and to ask you if you will not do in your state. special work with a view toward alleviating the horrors that now exist in Poland.
 Governor Hunt says Should the members of this committee undertake to assist you in your commendable work I would most gladly extend my cooperation so far as circumstances might permit. and I have no objection to your so assuring the people whose addresses I have given you" It is this strong word from your governor that gives me the courage to write you
 " III AOtl AtSIlOflu lO II " III you lOI try to help my people?
 Yours most sincerely.
 MARCELL.A SEMRRICH
 President.
 Mime. Sembrich. the world famous operatic singer Is a native of Lemberg in Ga'icia, a town which was captured and recaptured after terrific lombard ments and after the surrounding coun- try had been laid waste
 There are several enclosures in which it is stated that so urgent is the neel of Poland that the Belgian relief committees are now aiding The treas urer of the Polish relief committee is the Guaranty Trust Company of New York through which the committee is reaching reliable distributing agents in Warsaw and Galicia. Distribution is also being made through the Swiss committee of which Henry Sien Kie- wicz is the president.
 An article from the New York Times is enclosed which after describing pres ent condition thus speaks of the fu- ture:
 Such is Poland's present. The fu- ture will be even worse. The country, ravaged and irrecIa amable. begins to resemble the primeval Sarmatian waste Roads, forests, and even fields have vanished. Many roads are still as von HindenburE left them in his November retreat. They are chess boarded with quadrangular cavities neck deep in rain water Some still bear the Germans ironical rlacard. No bathing here
 The roads which have been repaired cannot bring food to civilians. for all are crowded by parallel transport col umns. The fields were destroyed by transport and artillery trains which