The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-26

also receiving frequent mail advices from their friends in the various parts of Poland. One of the last posted of these student letters summed up re- cent advices which got through as follows:
 "Out of 127,Ooo square kilometers in old Poland, 84,000 square ki1ome- ters have now been occupied by the Austro- German armies. The depart ments which have suffered most are Kaliska, Piotrowska, Kielecka, Ra- dowskah Suwolska.i and Plocka; also four districts of the government of Lonisynsky, 10 districts of. Warsaw, which is a department half the size or Wales in addition to the city of War saw, four districts of Lubcloskicj and five in Che1skiy. Out of 12,o00,000 in- habitants of this region, 9,000,0o0 have suffered Of 27,oOO,ooo villages. $500 or about 20 per cent are par tia1ly destroyed. and another 1000 villages are completly. leveled to the ground, not a trace of them remaining beyond the heaps of smouldering rubbish and ruin."
 The peasantry arep ictured as nov ing about like great tribes of gypsies over the blackened fields. carrying and pushing their scant belongings in small carts. Miss Alma-Taden1a gives a graphic picture of this whole sale desolation: Industry is at a standsti1I; millions are out of work; the meadows and arabIe lands are furrowed by deep trenches, ridd1ed with shell holes; the same tracts have been swept over and over by immense battle waves; nothing remains The barns and ricks are burned; the horses and cattle all stolen or salin; ruin everywhere. The women and children have been driven out into the open: they cover in the woods; the manse, the manor house, the old castle in the park, all are. destroyeds there is no one to help, there is mo- where to fly to, nothing to do but to hide in ruins, in woods or in hol1ows, gnawing roots and the bark of trees, while the children shiver and starve to death.''
 And this is from one of the best Uniformed Polish authorities in Eng Hand, the energetic young woman of hcia1 of the Polish committee, the bearer of one of England's great names, and the center into which pours all this mass of information concerning the colossal tragedy of Poland.
 There are many other enthusiastic Polish workers here, notably Mime. Syanislawa Bevan, the Polish wife of the prominent English painter. Rob ert Bevan, who is chairman of the committee looking after Polish refu- gees coming to London. Mime. Bevan, born in Poland, has sacrificed her
 
 tryrnen. One of the rings she gave for the cause is significant of the burning hope underlying the Polish cause. It is an old family heirloom, bearing date just after Poland was torn into three parts and passed around to Austria, Prussia and Rus sia. What appears to be seal on top is in truth a miniature coffin, embla- naatic of Poland's burial. But when a tiny spring is touched, the coffin opens and a Polish knight in the full sword a1oft from his tomb in which Poland has slept since she was dis membered
 The AngIo-Russian entente creates many political obstacles to getting de- tails of conditions in the eastern field for publication, and even in telling the truth. For example, Cardinal Bourne, archbishop of Westminister, made a remarkable address recently to a gathering of Poles and Polish adherents. It was presumed that such an address would be printed in all it's details, but when the text appeared in the "Universe'' it was with frequent paranthetical phrases ssDeleted by the Censor Even one of the appeals for relief of Polish victims has fallen url- der the ban and had had to be with drawn. Thus England is loyal to her Russian ally, and the political status iofs Poland is necessarily viewed in London from the Anglo Russian viewpoint. But the actualities of the Polish people, the havoc and distress among them, stand out in startling magnitude notwithstanding the veil which is kept so tightly drawn over the political status.
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