New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-21

pyramids OF timed meats and Vegeta-
bles. All the plain TO the east of Poscn
has been cut up with an elaborate sys-
TEN Of Entertainments and outworks
connected by telephone and overlooked
by signal towers hidden amid the pine
trees. This work has been done most
~ by class OF young Poles whose
idling habits were their peril. They are
well paid and are beginning TO look
with a favorable eye upon toll as a
means of livelihood.
IL is the feeling of the German popu-
lation of German Poland that on the
whole the Poles have shown :; very
good attitude toward the government IN
this war, and the continued evidences
of that well disposed state of mind
please the Germans more than a vic
tory does. The best proof that the
Poles are loyal and the Germans CRATE
full lies in the fact that the archbishop
ric of Posen is now filled for the first
time in twenty-one years. When the
old Archbishop died the activities OF the
Catholic party in German Poland were
of such nature that the government
determined not to permit the filling Of
the vacant post. For twenty-one years
the work of the archdiocese has been
done by the auxiliary Bishop. Likowski.
But by way of recognition of the atti-
tude of the Polish clerics he was lately
elevated TO full archiepiscopal dignity.
People Show Their Loyalty.
The loyalty Of the people also finds
expression in minor ways some OF
them the usual petty signs Of chauvin-
ism and some Of them springing from a
general spirit of reconciliation in a
time Of trouble. OF the latter nature
was the decision of highly esteemed
Polish actress 10 appear at the German
controlled municipal theatre Of Posen.
where she had never consented to act
before. and Of the former is the re-
fusal of the people to buy an American
safety razor because they think it is Of
English manufacture. The American
manufacturer of hair tonic has been
cleYerer than the razor man and has
the wrappers of his product.
While German soldiers are stream
ing out of Posen for the front, Rus
sian soldiers are streaming in en-
route to the prison camps in the in
terror Of Germany. AT the main rail
way station they were treated with
undoubted consideration
One sees them marching down the
platform hugginG the loaves of bread
which had been thrust into their
hands as they left the train. Under
one arm they carried their soup bowls.
When they lined up in front OF the
soup kettles the bowls we're filled.
Most Of the prisoners had lost their
spoons and had 20 drink the soup
from the bowls. When they had fin
ished the first bowl they stood before
the kettles. the hungry look still in
their eyes, but their minds uncertain
as t. whether il was fitting to ask
for mere. German mon and women
who were doing Red Cross work at
the station passed them and said:
well, children. have you had enough -
The poor prisoners could neither IN
derstand German nor make themselves
understood in Russian.
SO there was no answer.
A German army surgeon came that
way. He wasted no words, but just
filled the bowls again.
His language the Russians under
stood.
The work at the railway station is
very trying for the German women, es-
cially when il involves the care of the
German wounded. The hungry eyes Of
the Russian prisoners touch their
nedIlS anu Nlt SdhfI INK VI NIltli wv ~
people tears them. The consequence is
that they go home at night worn out
in body and spirit. A German woman
Of birth who had served a week amid
these scenes got in such a state that
she could neither eat nor sleep. Her
husband took her in hand
81 cannot allow this to 90 on" he
said. you will kill yourself"
yes" she said. as she broke down in
a passion Of weeping. 81 can bear no
MORE can bear no more"
But after weeks rest she was back
at her post.
CCopS right. 1915. by The Chicago Tribune
another article of Mr.. Benefits
series will appear in The Tribune to-
morrow