New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-31
Two Weeks Ago Order
Was Given to Citizens to
Quit Poland.
THOUSANDS DEPARTED
AT ONCE TO RUSSIA
Buildings Stripped, Factories
Dynamited and Nothing of
Value Left to Invader.
By BASSErT DIGBY.

l !,
while evacuation was in progress. The
general staff is persuaded that the
Warsaw triangle is no longer tena6le'
| although the Germans are bathing
with much less determination than
/ they did during the long advance from
Lemberg. -.
Grand Duke Nicholas will save his
| ermies whatever happens, just as the
French and British intended. to retire
bevond Paris if necessary. Personally
can see nothing but ultimate disaster
! for the Germans in their colossal ope-
rations against the ever yielding but
ever pressing hosts OF the Car. -,
Warsaw is isolated from all but mil
;tarv communication. \ week ago TO-
! dav a train arrived in Moscow carrying
/ the British. French, Belgian and Serb
ian consuis and consular archives' ne
American consul, fernando De ooto'
remained in Warsaw, having lald III
| BIG stock of provisions, with the lhteh-
ton Of sticking to his post. On the
train were also the British Anglican
chaplain and the last remnant oil tne
! British colony, some riding on caV'Ie
! trucks. The refugees included most Ul
! the high officials of the law courts WIN
the archives and 3O,OOO,ooo ruDieS
/ ISIS, OOOUOOJ OF court Iu"u''
Evacuation Ordered July 10.
Thursday evening, July 10, the Rus
sian authorities announced In th%
newspapers that the clty,s oiliciaI
evacuation would begin Oh the iollo" :
| ing Sunday. As a matter OIL lacI' ~
hryan Immediately. Police visited
every house and told the "stroosh, OF
nortrr. to try to induce the lhhaDl-
tants in his building 20 leave at once
! for Russia (as distinguished lIoINi
PolandD. Free transport on the laIlI
wav to any destination IN Russia anu
grants of money were promised "HoH
Epeded. Unlike the partial evacuation
81 last December, every effort was
nut forth to induce citizens ~ leaVe
Warsaw, the police showing great
Kindness and sympathy. 49,. =
Rolling stock, consisting NANNY "a
emntv freight cars, was quietly aC
cumulated on the sidings tor "eeA
until thousands of cars were aVaiIapIe.
During Friday, Saturday ana SUNDAY
trains of refugees were dlspaVcheGi
eastward. Fleeing men, women anu
children were packed as closely "S
While $4,000 citizens, including
nearly half of Warsaw's ghetto, 9 mus
departed eastward, nearly another ooV'-
600 of peasants came trooplng mo tne
poI;Sb METROPOLIS from the neIghborlnS
districts. Practically the entire popIl-
lation of the country on the horIh
sa,,th and west came in a ceaseless pro-
cession day and night, the tired, dust
,,h;toned neasant families with their
cattle and portable goods throhgiHs 'He
on
Rich Men Now Penniless.
In the city itself tens of thousands
Of homes were literally broken instant
". | know OF four cases OF men WORT
more than Sl,00O,000 last month VINO
are now nearly pennlleSs' ..;e,
simultaneously with the eVacud'.Vi
all property likely to be useluI 10 lne
enemy, especially metal ana machinetS
was removed or destroyed. fdGIOi re-
were feverishly stripped ana .ne
owners of the plants were grah'eq l!ee ,
TRANSPORTATION to the eastward IVl
,,,bat tbev could save. Day and night
one heard the periodical roar o.
dynamlted factory plant that was en-
bedded IN concrete or VAS TOO culIlocl
some to dismantle and transport. Every
fragment OF this dynamlted meta! was
taken eastward on the railway
Inc newspapers OF Warsaw mace
their last appearance with the Issue
announcing the evacuation. men Wy
linotvpe machines were rooted up run
ne toors and carted away. Ponce dn1
soldiers visited every printing es1ao
hshment and every newspaper once
taking the fonts OF type ana dlstnahtI
inc the presses. Hardly ton OF cop
per fittings was left in the CITY al
stocks OF copper in pipe factories aho
plumbing shops, copper uSed LOT hEuse
hold ware-copper OF every KIND "heLe
ever found removed. 30 were lh'
stocks of ironmongers, hospital sup
plies and officers KITS.
Wreckers Worked FeNerishiy.
Warsaw knew no stoppage OF woi'
in that weekend. The huge postoIlCe
the banks, the telegraph oinces' IN
law courts and the various muhlcip"
DEPARTMENTS were busy dlsmah'ilhs
their quarters and packing their al
chives and portable equipment LOT III
mediate transport TO Russia proper
Through the streets endless column
of laden carts and lorries converged OF
the Praga and AleXandrovshl orluge'
across the NistUla, only group o
soldiers, with their legs dangling owe
the side. distinguishing them from th'
wagons containing peasants, win lev
sacks of potatoes, from those mat co,.
tsined the banks millions OF ruoles Il
naner money or the irreplaceable rec
ords OF the law courts.
Dav ard night gangs OF soldiers were
briskly stripping league after leasH
of copper telegraph wires from th'
poles. a. oo, .rf
tho edifces were crowded with weeplhi
ard nraying Poles and Russians
priests passed among them IN thel
aorgeous robes, while aloft IN th'
Towers the huge bronze bells were uh
sIung lest they become food Tor th'
Krunn cannon later on. All the cnurci
bells archives, treasures, gem-Studue'
. ritualistic implements, screens YES
; ments and ikons are now being cdlile'
nwar the Vistula and away TO Kussia
7, Ia renorted that the vault OF th'
Church Of the Holy Cross, IN hraho'
st; Street. was opened by choppirG am
,bat the sacred heart preserved tneI'
was removed 10 Moscow.
Crops Destroyed: Bridges to CO.
Tho talephone exchange was disman
tied. The dynamos supPSInS ~" 80,
the streetcars were .eHV'eu' -
III u,heals and detachable httlngs o.
81. cars TO be taken 10 Russia. al
.L ne crnns around Warsaw were de
; stroyed wher no troops 'o"'1
= 10 garner them. . . ~.
,,rourd and the city's suburbs are DC
e. surrounded with trenches. SUP
III rosidants have b1en ordered u