New Britain herald., 1918-12-04
POLES DEMANDING
 AN INvESTIGAT!O
Want International Board to Look
 Into Anti-JoW PoSrOmS

New | 1Ork, Dec. 4.-FOr the purpose l of establishing once and for all, the truth or falsity of the stories of Jew ish pOgroms in Poland, the Polish National department, and the Polish National Defense committee have unit ed in q formal demand on the Amer ican and Allied governments that they dispatch at once to Poland d special commission, on which the Jews and Polish immigration in the United States shall have mem bership to investigate the actual existing con- ditions, and to report the results of their investigation to the people of the United States and the Allied na- tions
 The Polish people in the United States have for some time been view ing with distress and alarm, the news items being printed in the American newspapers from Copenhagen, from Amsterdam, from Switzerland and other centers, setting forth that the Poles are promoting general pogroms against the Jews. While many of the dispatches also mention pogroms in Russia, Roumania, and portions of CZecho- SloVakia, the main burden of responsibility Is inevitably centered on the Poles, While representa- tive and l6puldDlS OleS III the OnlLeQ states, men acquainted intimately with the relations of the Poles and Jews in Poland, have made denials at various times. their letters are often refused and only rarely see the public eye.
 It is because of their appreciation that this campaign, willingly or un- Wittingly is certain to react against the cause of the new Independent and United Polish state at the Peace table, that the proposition is now ad- vanced for an investigation by an in ter-Allied and American commission
 Want Peace Delegates.
 Inasmuch as representatives of the Jewish organizations in the United States have already petitioned the AL lied governments that Poland, virtually be denied even seat at the Peace table or an opportunity to state it's case before that august tribunal, the situation is most critical, and in this emergency, the representatives of the Polish National department and of the Polish National Defense committee, two organizations, which, since the opening of the war, have differed widely on general programs, have united to present a common front against this particularly insidious at tack on the Polish nationality. The formal resolution calling for the ap- pointment of the commission and set ting forth the need of the same was signed at the Hotel Gotham by Messrs John F. Snnulski, chairman, P. N. D.; Dr. K. Zurawslli, chairman, N. D. C.; Dr. Adam Szwajkart, K. ZychlinslSi, Alexander Debslli and Dr. B. Kola- koWski
 Messrs, Smulski and kolakoWski, representing the two organizations, and in explanation of the resolutions, said last night that they had asked for this commission with every conf dence that it would brand as false the stories being so widely circulated. Poland, they declared, is at war, at war with Bolshevism, at war with the various forms of anarchy. It is still at war with the Ukrainans, who, un- der the leadership of German and Austrian officers, are attempting to seize Poland territory, at war with Germany, which did send also an army against Poland. Unfortunately, perhaps the Bolshevik emmissaries sent from Russia into Poland have in many cases been Jews racially, though we appreciate they have long ceased to follow the religious observances of the faith. When it happens that a people arc protecting their country and it's frontiers from invading, mar auding or footing forces, it is impossi- bio to Segregate the enemy on reli- gious lines in order that the patriotic forces be used only against the Chris ians. We now solemnly declare that the dispatches setting forth that mas sacres of the Jews are taking place in Warsaw are false.
 Pictures Conditions Abroad
 We most respectfully ask that the American people picture for the time being the actual conditions in Poland German soldiers retreating into Ger many Russian soldiers making their way into Russia are all traversng the distracted land, ravaging and footing. Willis J. Rose, an agent of the SloEenc government, has, accord ing to the Thursday papers, set forth graphically to Colonel House at Paris, a statement of present conditions in his petition for aid. We are firmly convined that the assaults upon the Jews, which these troops are commit ting are assaults which are being charged to the Poles. In short, we hope that such a commission when ap- pointed will carefully examine the Polish Rabbis in Poland, men who are Poles but of Jewish faith, and from their lips we expect a vindica- ton.
 Meanwhile, we find it impossible to dispel from our minds the feeling that our Jewish countrymen in America who are supplying this Information are creating Q situation which will be only to the profit of Germany and the Bolsheviks.
 In Stemming the tide of Bolshe-