Evening star., 1919-08-31
BY JAMES C. WHITE.

WARSAW, July 14.-There is all the
and thrill of three round
rip ocean journeys in one single trip
into Poland. The new nation today
is regarded as the nerve center of
Europe. Out of Europe the radicals
are engaged in constant effort to
make through to their friends in Rus
sia: out of Russia and through Po-
land the bolsheviks are engaged in a
continual struggle to make into
western Europe, and between the de-
sire Of the Poles to be saved from
the western radical forays, and hope
Of western Europe and the ma
tions in central Europe to be pro-
tected from the reds of Russia, all
possible blocks have been thrown in
the way of travellers. For Poland
even the American passport needs sid-
ditional verfica ton. and, in addition.
Swiss and Czechoslovak vises are re-
CURED with the Polish wise. which is
added by the Polish authorities in
Paris. Last. but not least, indeed
even after all of these are secured,
one has to secure permission from
the French military authorities to
make the journey. for it is only on a
French military train with an armed
guard that the trip can be made.
On the Train Diplomatique.
The train is a diplomatic train, and
places are worth kings ransom. 1t
is used by the Polish and Czech po-
litical governmental authorities, by
the represe natives OF the allied gov
ernments and by the couriers and
Leaving from Paris is like the sail
ing OF an ocean steamer. Crowds line
the platforms, Polish and Czech exiies
in Paris, who find their greatest con-
or perhaps their finest grief
in watching those who can make the
journey to their native land, from
which they are denied. There are as
many languages in use as helped to
wreck the Tower of Babel. and each
well wisher to a traveller brings to
lhe station baskets of fruit and loads
OF cigarettes and tobacco. for east of
switzerland We enter a land where
of tobacco has become almost
a lost art for lack of the material
packages were being handed through
the windows OF the corridor train un-
I'll. in many of the staterooms of the
popular travellers. the problem of find
-ng place to sit became most serious
1t was a little after 7:20 in the even
ng when. We finally pulled out of the
SarlS station for Journey Mnlcu
laappier times consumed only thirty
six hours at the most. but which. un-
der the new dispen sation. requires
three nights and two days. But to
the difference it must be
remembered that in the old days the
Warsaw man made his way straight
through Berlin, while our train under
the present regime, has to journey
through Switzerland, through Austria
Slovakia and finally into Poland, the
journey having been length
eDed by some 500 miles. Part of the
time, as l later learned, was consumed
with examinations of passports and
customs Inspections. which the crea-
ton of the new states makes inevita-
nle
Car Platforms as Boundaries,
Once under way, one had a chance
TO survey the train. Considering the
lormalities of the journey, it seemed a
short one. for it con-
only baggage car. a restau-
rant car-which. fortunately for u.s.
went all the way through special
car for Prague. a special
car for Warsaw and one
additional car for the armed guard
and such favored people as might be
picked up in between. The Czech car
was first, the Warsaw car was second.
and though the Paris treaty had pro-
claimed an exact peace between tNs
two nations. it was curious to note
~ hn
pute still on. that there was very lit
tie visiting between the two. Some
how the two nations preserved with
IN the two cars more exact under
standing of their boundaries than the
peace council had been able to ar
range.
The Warsaw car contained an in
teresting group of men. There was
Count Sobanski of London. who. for
four years has been acting as the
Polish representative in England.
much as Mr.. Paderewski acted in
America. He was accompanied by
his wife and young son. and was max
ing journey to Warsaw preliminary
10 taking up his post as minister of
Poland at Belgium. He spoke perfect
English as well as half a dozen
other languages. and moved back anc
forth, an able. cultivated gentleman,
ready for his new obligations. His
IL
self. Born at the time of the 1905
in Poland, he had been in
during the last revolution.
and his only grievance was that dur
ing that period when machine guns
were sputtering from windows and
roofs. the porters of the houses were
in the habit of closing the doors
when a Chap" started to run for
shelter so that the only way out was
to drop in the gutter close to the
curb and hope that you would be
missed.
Polanders Also En- Route
There was also a young man from
the Polish foreign office whose Eng
Of us who have grown accustomed
to American enunciations. He had
been making studies in Paris of land
division methods, in anticipation of
the action of the Polish diet in that
direction There was also one Alex
ander Russanowicz. who had been to
Paris as the head of a group OF
Polish engineers from Ukrainia. who.
without any heat, because l suppose
the fire of the recital had been
worked out of his system. told of the
in that land. where priests
had been crucified to crosses. and
sheer nuns. after being violated by
the bolsheviks and others. had their
heads blown to pieces with ilghted
1t was not cheerful talk
1t the best. He confessed. that some
hing had been gained, inasmuch as
he Poles had finally been authorized
10 advance their army into the field
and were going to have a chance to
1t least clean up the country. IL was
1ow a case, he said, of>village against
village, each as an Independent re-
public, with armed guards of it's own.
md murder and rapine as constant
Meanwhile, he said. the
peasants, having determined that the
owns and cities were the roots of
LII evil, had started starving out the
settled communities.