Arizona republican., 1915-11-25
Asserts the Germans Con- demned .Russian-Poland Industries to Perdition and Tells of Confiscation and Destruction
[RepubIican A. P. Leased wlre1


 LONDON, Nov. 24.-A dark pie ture of conditions in Russia, Poland and an argument against the neces- sity of providing food by charity, will be published in the Times tomorrow "A leading member of the so-called Polish independence party which remains in close touch with the su- preme Polish national committee of Austrian Poland, is responsible for the statements.
 The Times explains that the com mittee created and is responsible for the Polish legions fighting with the Austro- Hungarian army against Rus sian and says that the author of the memorandum, therefore, cannot be supposed to entertain hostile bias, at least against Germanys Austrian ally.
 One of the main features of the German administration in Poland says the memorandum lis the at tempt to exploit the occupied terri tory economical to the utmost Every new regulation ~aims at getting as much as possible out of the country although the German authorities try to disguise this tendency in different ways.
 Tt is explained by reasons of strat- egy, of order. of policy, and even of humanity The German authorities are especially anxious to give an ap- pearance of humanitarianism to their policy in Russian Poland"
 The memorandum says that Ber- lins relief activity was short lived In March. 1915, Field Marshal von Hindenburg, it says, proclaimed his famous reprisal for the destruction of Memel (East Prussia) by the Rus tricts were to answer by contriDu- tions and other burdens. The German press raised it's voice against contri- buttons for Russian Poland.
 By an order of April 27, the mem orandum continues, all grain and potatoes after one and one half poods (about 55 pounds) has been left for each inhabitant until the harvest, was to be delivered to the Posen Company mentioned in the order. The order explained that the purpose was to provide flour for districts where there was a shortage. The peasants in the district of Kujavy. where where lIeIe was plenty OI gram which they were keeping for an hour of need were exported to give up grain for famine sufferers in Dom brova. That district received an ab- solutely insufficient supply, but on July 1 an order for securing the rest of the grain for the German army was enforced
 This order the memorandum says, extended confiscation to the coming harvest, without any pre- tense of philanthropist or humani- tarianism1'
 Asserting that from the first the Germans "condemned the Industries of Russian Poland to perdition" the memorandum gives details of al- leged destruction or confiscation of property. It says that virtually all the coal mining machinery in the district of Dombrova was destroyed in the autumn of 1914 for strategical reasons and that the population, dependent on the mines. were made desperate thereby.
 Other alleged incidents cited are the withdrawal of the state bank. the absorption of the country's fuel supply. the requisitioning of many commodities and of quantities of fac tory machinery necessary for the country's industries, which were taken to Germany, and the seizure of factories and raw material to the value of $25,000, 1000.
 Payment for the reuuisitioned