Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-08-07
Has Been Trampled and Deyas-
tated BY Armies From All
Sides; Children Starye
lBy AssocIated Pressll

LONDON, Eng THE desperate
fighting now going On around Warsdw
and through the eastern zcne of ope-
rations centers attention on the colos-
sal tragedy of Poland. the second that
unhappy country has endured. the first
having stirred America to its depths
when Kosciuszco went there TO tell
Pcland's own story and left its memo
ries in the statue OF the Polish liber-
ator in one OF the public squares OF
Washington.
But that first tragedy was as moth
ing compared with what Poland is
now undergoing, the entire theater OF
eastern fighting being within the ter
ritcry of the old kingdom of Poland,
with Russian armies tramping over
the country from the east, Austrian
armies from the south, and German
armies from the north and west, all
COMPRISING Poland as in double
vice from four sides. marching and
fighting on a. scale OF unprecedented
magnitude, and leaving a train OF
wreck and desolation even greater
than that iof Belgium or Serbia. This
witnesses, Polish, English and Ameri-
can, who have recently traversed the
stricken regions, including G. G. Glib
son of the Rockefeller Foundation,
who declared on his return that this
was one OF the greatest tragedies the
world had known. the devastation of
Belgium shrinking in comparison.
Such telegraphic news as trickles
through from Poland, except the Off.
cial reports of military operations
from the three sides, Is censored and
garbled and gives only the picture OF
fighting, without that Of the PROSTATE
country under the heels of the fight
ers pressing from four Sides But from
eye-witnesses returning, from Polish
student refugees from the scourged
district, and from letters to those who
have sought asylum here there is a
mass of information on the real con-
diticns at the scene of these gigantic
eastern operations. Much Of this in
formation flows into the hands Of Miss
Laurence Alma-Tadema, daughter of
the English artist, who for three
months has been working day and
night as the secretary and directing
genius OF the Polish relief committee
whose officers and patrons embrace
about every name Of note in England
peers, cabinet members, ambassar
doris. artists and authors.
Think of the magnitude of this APP
palling Polish tragedy" said Miss Al
mai ma to d REPRESENTATIVE OF The
Associated Press. ct is difficult for
us in England or America. with con-
diticns serene, to cast the minds eye
across Europe and grasp the fact that
all the titanic Eastern battles are be-
ing fought on Polish SOIL And it is
not only gigantic struggle ofsinvad-
ing armies from without, one follow
ing another with all their train of ruin
and desolation. but it partakes almost
OF civil conflict with Pole fighting
against Pole
There are" she went on, "about
12,000,000 Russian Poles, and about
the same number of Austrian and
Prussian Poles. All of them have
that intense longing to see Poland rise
again as unified kingdom. And yet
of these $4,000, 900 Poles, 1000, 900
Polish soldiers are fighting in the
Russian ranks. and 100000 are fight
ing in the Austrian and German ranks
literally brother against brother.
One OF the reports reaching me tells
of a body of Polish infantry on the
Russian side charging at body of the
enemy. with bayonets raised and the
battle-crys ringing from both sides
only to distinguish as they came to
grips that both were shouting the cry
of Poland-and on that instant, as If