The Washington times., 1915-07-31
$4,000 Civilians Flee
In City's Evacuation
Warsaw's Abandonment Began on July l5-Trans of
Refugees Leave City as Factories and Public
Buildings Are Dismantled- Villages Razed
and Food Supplies Removed.

Polish metropolis from the nsighborins
districts.
Practically the entire population OF
the country on the north. south. and
west came in a ceaseless procession day
and night. the tired. dust whitened
peasant families with their cattle and
portable goods thronsing the roads con-
verging on Warsaw. In the city itself
literally tens Of thousands of homes
four cases Of men worth more than
81 .OO0, 900 last month who are now nearly
penniless.
simultaneously with the evacuation
enemy. especially metal and machinery.
was removed or destroyed. Factories
were feverishly stripped and the owners
OF the plants were granted free trans.
could save. Day and night one heard
the periodical roar on dynamited fac
tory plant that was embedded In CON
mantle and transport. Every fragment
Of this dynamited metal was taken
eastward on the railway.
Buildings Dismantled.
THE newspapers Of Warsaw made
their last appearance with the issues
announcing the evacuation. Then the
linotype machines we're rooted w from
the floors and carted away. Police and
soldiers visited every printing estab-
lishment and every newspaper office.
taking the fonts of type and d.sma ntling
the presses. Hardly ton Of copper
| fittings was left In the city. All stocks
| Of copper In pipe factories and plumbing
! shops. copper used for household ware
copper Of every kind wherever found
was removed. So were the stocks Of
ironmoneers' hospital supplies. and Of
| "Warsuw knew no stoppaRe of work
In that week end The huge postoff &C.
the banks. the telegraph offices. the
law courts. and tho, various municipal
| Through the streets endless columns Of
laden carts and lorrIes conveyed on
the Praxa and Alexandrovski bridges
across the Nistula. wagons with peas.
the banks millions of rubles in paper
| money, or the trreplaceable records OF
; the law courtE.
and the ediices we're crowded with
weeping and praying Poles and Rus
SLAMS among whom passed the min
istering priests in their gorgeous robes.
while sl9ft In the towers the huge
came food for the krupp cannon later
on. All the church bells, archives
treasurers. gem studded ritualistic i'm
! plements. screens, yestments and icons
are. now being carried over the vistula
| the vault Of the church OF the Holy
| Cross In Krakovski street as opened
| by chopping and that the sacred heart
preserved there was removed TO Mos
| COW.
Dynamos Removed.
! The telephone exchange was disman-
tied. The dynamos supplying power to
| the street cars were removed. as were
| all Of the wheels and detachable fttings
Of the cars. TO be taken to Russia. All
| the crops around Warsaw were de.
stroyed. Villages are being razed to the
ground and the city's suburbs are being
! surrounded with trenches
The three Fistu!a bridges. including
the new Praga bridge. more than a mile
long and costing $1,000, 900, are lined
with sand bags. and wires are set ir
| readiness to explode land mines at the
last moment before the Germans enter
! Warsaw.
THE evacuation OF the towns between
Warsaw and Brcst- st-Litovsk Is beginning
and hardly 200 900 persons remain.
Since July 81 every wheeled vehicle
has been taken across the Nistula. witt
nearly all the horses. Two Thousand
hackney carriages are being driven b,
their owners across Russia for dis
tance Of nearly 1000 miles to Moscow
Thousands OF poor people ara heins
ferrted across the Virtula daily. al
streaming eastward and unable to bu!
bread in Warsaw"