Norwich bulletin., 1915-07-02
STORIES OF THE WAR

50,o0o miners in Dombrova and the ad- joining mines have lost their work for strategical reasons All commerce of
 the kingdom with the Russian Empire
 has been practically stopped as well | on account of a lack of transportation
 facilities as because of the interrupted international relations. These com
 mercial transactions between the
 Kingdom and the Empire amounted
 for the year preceding the war to one billion roubles or $500, 100000.
 The same conditions prevail in the
 banking business. The transactions of
 the big corporations, of Mutual Credit Associations and of Savings Banks
 have been limited to the paying out of deposits. The notes portefeuil of local banks, representing a nominal value of many hundreds of millions roubles,
 bear no interest whatever, having. temporarily at least the mere value of
 millions of scraps of paper"
 The toal of material losses in nov able and immovable properties is val , ued at $70O, ,000, 900.
 On all sides there Is hunger, disease and ruin. Out of a total of 1,500, 900 horses in this part of Poland S00,000
 have been requisitioned by both fight ing armies. Not less than 2,000, 900
 cattle have been confscated for the
 same purpose. Milk is rare and the
 mortality among infants shows a ter
 rife increase. Sanitary conditions are worse than deplorable. Insufficient
 nourishment, a fatal congestion of population in certain cities reputed to
 be safe from immediate war dangers Gin some temporary asylums in War
 saw sixty people sleep in rooms of 4Ox30)-and a lack of medical help aggravate daily the evil conditions. In
 the country they are still worse, the
 proximity of shallow graves infecting the air and the water of wells with ESrn al fv, he
 provinces of Lublin and Suvalki the graves of fallen soldiers have very frequently been dug in the immediate | neighborhood of human dwellings.
 The conditions in Galicia Austrian Poland) may be still worse.
 Embracing 92 counties, Galicia has
 an area of S2,000 square miles and a population of over 5000, 900. All of her l territory, excepted Cracow and its inn | mediate vicinity, has suffered The country extending fro mthe Russian | frontier, from Podvolocziska up West | to Bochnia. for a distance of 40 miles
 has been destroyed by fire and cannon | The wave came from the East, was re- | pulsed and returned again. Many places were subjected to these in-
 vasions as many as seven times. A hundred cities and towns and 5000 will lages suffered cruelty; 2,50O villages have virtually disappeared from sight | Eight hundred thousand horses and 100000 cattle have been taken away by the armies, as well as almost all provisions like corn, potatoes and fod- der.
 The total agricultural production of Galicia valued at s2oO,o00, 900 yearly and the industrial output of some | $1G0,0eO,000 per annum have been | destroyed. The loss will be greatly in- l creased if the reports that the with drawing Russian army has set fire to the Carpathian oil wells prove true Cities like Tarnopol, Tarnow, Brody
 Nisko, Stryj. Kolomea, Stanislavov and | Przemysl are but heaps of ruins l Gloomy looking smokestacks rising out | of piles of bricks are the only wit
 nesses of the fact that human beings | had once resided there.
 | Cracow, the ancient capital of the
 Polish kings (200,OOo inhabitants) ant
 an architectural jewel among the cities | of medieval Europe, was not immedi. ately touched by the war, but its in
 habitants were ordered to leave and
 had to fly to Austrian Silesia, Vienna or Bohemia. Over a million Galician.