New Britain herald., 1919-04-03
LIS VIVID TALE F WORK IN POLAND
be. PadereWSki Writes Of Great
 Suffering Found There

N 6p Mime. Paderewskis son, W. Q. @ +olski of New York city, and my him eommunicated to friend in this city:
 Warsaw, Feb. 28, 1919. E Ny Dear Son:
 # "A diplomatic courier will leave for l F Raris today. I want him to take along | sM aay letter to you I must hurry, | X Therefore for he may be calling for it ] x #at any moment. What can I tell you about our ! x selves? As I wrote you before. the ! x 3ife we are leading is like a fairy tale ] # Afr. Paderewski stands at the head of # #lae government, prime minister and nlinister of foreign affairs. He has the love of the whole nation, which Trusts him and regards him as a sa- Slor. And all around us are the Pol # ish people, the Polish army, the Pol lsh government and the Polish assem- 8 bly--and our hearts and souls go out to God in expressions of gratitude for having accomplished this miracle Tor miracle if is indeed. Nevertheless everything is not for the best as yet War is raging on -four fronts. Our wonderful soldiers. h rags, without shoes, oftentimes M even without shirt on their backs, N hungry and cold, stubbornly resist the Z onslaught of cur enemies While our 8 own boys frequently lack weapons and @ shells, the Bclsheviks around Bialy- # stock, and the Ukrainians in Galicia # are making use of poisonous gas in # their fight against the Poles. They @ obtain it from the Germans, who, also @ supply them with arms ammunition $ tarld officers. Thousands of university and high school students have already M been killed. Lemberg is still resist x Ing, defended as it is by women and # mere boys The spirit of it's defend @ Esnrs remains unbroken in spite of the K Iatrocitfes committed by the Ukrain- E lians on captured Polish prisoners. The s tother day were brought back from K I Izemberg to Warsaw and placed in one x IAaf the hospitals which l visit daily, @ ,@tx Bolish nurses and four boy scouts, N Tfley had had the misfortune of fall @ HHg into Ukrainian hands. The nurses N 1lad been irnpaled and then, after a @ New hours of torture, in order that @ aaleir agony might be prolonged, M aaken off and thrown into a field to E die at leisure. The boy scouts had s been tied together with barbed wire, Rsaarfed up to their necks in an isolated spot but within sight of the Polish # Hines They were rescued at great x sacrifice in lives by some of our own x men. ! doubt whether any of the N nurses will survive their injuries. x Tour have already died at the time x am writing these lines The boys, I hope, will recover. These are but @ isolated cases which have come to my # attention, but I know that wholesale
 atrocities have been committed by the @ Tkrainians-
 < The BOisheyiks gouge the eyes and
 gut out the tongues of the prisoners s they capture and bury them alive aft N er having broken every bone in their
 arms and legs with hammers Their @ 1s1linese rllercenaries excel in that sort of cruelty And f thought that peace had come hack to earth bringing
 H5ith it good SilI toward men.
 rs The arrival here of Allied missions # assiped keep up our spirits Relief in # wilape Of food, clothing and arms is also on it's way If only Hal1er's Pol # ssh army, still detained in France for x some incen1prehensiIo1e reason, would # be sent to .Poland!!
 ' [ Poverty isRextr'eme-the people suf- #4 Ser terribly, less from hunger, now @# Ei1at food is beginning to arrive from
 America, than from lack of clothing EfeoExvear and from shortage of com # 8 lhnssabtes. The conditions prevailing # < an hpsplfa1s 1>ouh not be worse. Thou sands of prisoners of war are also # fArrIB1ng fEom Germany All are i 8 bAmaeIafed beyond words pra ctically x # Ewing skeletons. They look haggard
 and act as though their minds were Ehiank-teTror is in their eyes The Ansa1or1ty of them are constructive. A9hi if fsstoo horrible for words The Fvorking class is without occupation, sa5ld the enforced idleness is driving GfheTa to despair. They want to work.
 and there Is nothing for them to do, a 6or all factories have been either de HstFoyed or made useless by the Ger M2 kTnans, who carried away indispensable
 Enieoes of machinery. In spite of the x Blctivities Of Bo1sheHik and socialist MN agents, the werkmen tf Poland have @# ETeTnaaaed orderly. They continue to H9ust the one man whom they know
 1o have sacrificed everything, given uT #8 all he possessed to serve them 1nd the
 scause of their and his country. Yes.
 Eerday morning, five thousand sucf
 6abiess iaborers gathered in front ot sur hotel demanding work It wal not 3 disorderIy mob, but a petition &* ans crowd of men. MT. Padere~ski and even l went outside in thei1 midst. We appealed to their sense o honor-we spoke to their hearts The, #M dispersed in a dignified manner, onl, 1oo anxious not to make a bad i'm nression upon the representatives O. #X foreign missions who were watci1ins them from the windows of the hotel NM That was yesterday-lut what vii ## tomorrow bring?
 NH The coalition cabinet formed b. #M MT: Paderewski is composed of gifted 8& able and honest men. Their task arduous, confronted as they are b # countless intrigues due to German ant ; BoiEheyiSt agand3 which jS ra m