Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1915-03-29

any earnings great majority the towns.
men, millions in number, destitute Many die Of
hunger; others have been obliged to fly principally
from the smaller towns, to Warsaw further the
East in state of utter distress Everywhere spread
pidemical diseases, famneyphus spotted-fever dy--
sentery, especially among children from the total
milk and imported cholera Moreover hospitals
crowded with wounded; and the medicaments chiefly
foreign products wanting.
III.
GaIica Austrian Poland) includes 80 districts 49,.
800 square kilometres $4,000 square mes) with
millions of inhabitants. With the only exception
and the adjoining districts 5000 square kiIome.
tres and 100000 inhabants) it has become throughout
the seat Of The II eastern districts GS,OOO k
and millions ) have been captured since the begin.
ming OF the But the of the country the
great operations of war happend $4,000 S. k and 9
millions , has suffered much Here especially
large transversal tract between Lemberg Bochnia
10000 s. k and million i), where the principal bat
ties have been fought totally depopulated looks
like immense cemetery. r.. 81, ...
Nearly all this territory had support fights and
invasion again and again, in certain places times
100 towns and 5000 villages damaged and
the immediate losses amount millards francs $50
millions pounds). More than $500 villages utterly
destroyed. 1000 horses taken millions cattle
and nearly all the stores of and forage The yearly
agricultural production of about miIard francs (4O
millions pounds) has been ruined for considerable time
has also been the industrial, worth u miIard of
francs GO millions pounds) yearly and occupying 100-
600 workmen. chiefly in the oelds All the towns
severely damaged many, like Tarnopol, Brody Tarnow
Nsko. in ruins Amongst the most Important tho
administrative head of the country Lemberg (250O00
D fell into the hands Of the invaders almost at the be-
ginning of the the ancient crowning capital of Po
land, Cracow (1sOOOO D It's civil population for
cedly evacuated the fortress Of Przemysl 100000 f
is still beseged More than 700 churches have been de-
moished severely damaged Many Polish landowners
and peasants chiefly from the invaded districts
constrained seek refuge in the Austrian central
provinces. They followed by great deal Of fug.
tves from the towns and by the former Polish admins
straon the occupied districts 10000 Of railway Off
caIs aone) The forced GaIician emigration I'm the in.
terror of the Austrian empire amounts already to
than million (there Bohemia alone $50 900 of
them) Most Of these exiles without any MEANS In
the deepest misery. Generally speaking all the caami.
ties brought about by the such destruction, IA
mine, sickness and DEATH throughout the Kingdom Of
Poland have also befallen Galicia
Finally. on the extreme limits Of Poland there arc
the 100000 Polish Mazurs OF the Lake plain Of East
Prussia who have twice supported the heaviest disasters
of There further the 100000 Polish mountai-
upon the Hungarian and Bukowina frontiers who
have twice been by invasion And lastly, there
the 25OOOO Polish inhabitants Of the districts Of
who suffered the same evils.
w.
Poland, great and ancient among cvilised nations,
tormented necessarily since century and half. has
been plunged, without any fault her own, into
the deepest mischief Of universal On territory
nearly equal that of the whole of England and
land and populous than Spain, this unhappy hut
industrious people, of strong vitality has been sud-
denly deprived Of all its Of existence and
demned the most terrible sufferings almost
tinction by the faults Of others Such misfortune
bined to such injustice, is without parallel in
dern history Nevertheless in face appalling t~a.
gedy the world unmoved. It Is certainly Tor
want Of compassion but for want of exact information
the state of affairs in Poland. The undersigned
Committee in bringing this information to the cvilised
world believes to be doing its duty not only to the
of its country but to the conscience of humanity.
GENERAL RELIEF COMMITTEE
FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE WAR IN POLAND.
General Relief Committee for the victims Of the
Poland: Henry Sienkiewicz, president; 1gnace
Paderewski vcepresdent Anthony Osuchowski, presi-
dent of the Executive Commission. The Swiss National
Bank (Banque Naonale suisse) at Lausanne receives
subscriptions Addres the Executive Commission: We
vey (Switzerland), Grand Hotel
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