The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-04
MEN LOOTERS
SVARM into MINSK
avrD POLISH UHLANS IN
IL, suEyIsT TERRITORY.
~ CARRIES BASKET.

ArcK-When the Polish Uhlans
N into Minsk, driving the boil
]. ont, they were preceded, fol-
1 ond almost accompanied by
If Ruthenian women, each
/ basket on her arm. The baskets
smpty. The bolsheviki had three
Il cars in the town and they
t., streets hot for an hour, but
Bosant women came streaming
/ the same. They stood around
or+ while the Uhlans trotted
], down the streets, cleaning up
h of the bolsheviki. But as the
Lore on they became restless,
baIIv a crowd of them swarmed
1 a squad of Uhlans resting in
kopts and shouted at them:
4 rs. comrades, when does the
] begin?"
j was the whole result the boil
] cot out of the terrible stories
sert printing in their papers of
mos the Poles would do if they
\ came, and they did a little
] in this manner: scattered pa
here and there, stepped into
.or. if, as was usually the case,
Ion was closed in front, went
4 into the court yard and en-
from behind and picked up
booked worth while and was
IL. Closing the front of the
.mas simply an aid to those
h takers. Officers passing in
reets could not detect them.
Soldiers going through houses
sng for arms felt they ought to
%arded for their trouble and
||exacted compensation accord
4 the richness of the furniture.
Jews Not Alarmed.
i've no proof, but it seemed
Il if their exactions in apart
Belonging to Jews were a lit
he exacting. Race prejudice
4 for that much, though it led
a bloodshed, and far from be-
ghtened half to death, as the
Rles of these parts as painted
erica would lead one to believe,
Is we're standing around on the
& everywhere in crowds. They
y realized that to keep their
closed was also no help, as
Here was in the way of robbery
e sly form of apparently vol
contributions, and they had
hying their safety too long in
Zion to let that worry them
emed to me the Jews were not
uch afraid anyhow. They ex-
indignities, such as beard cut
hd some looting, but they were
lilly afraid of the Poles. For,
III, there is something in this
good friendship between the
hd the Poles, although it IS no
nearly as good as it used to
e first encounter l noticed be-
"a Pole and a Jew was anything
sfriendly.
aded down this way for War
but the time I expected Mlnsk
4 in the company of a Polish
Ener with property near
which he was anxious to reach
ID as it was released from the
Niki. Ny companion belonged
ancient Polish family and ordl-
looks like a modern cultivated
man. But after he had passed
Abhts in a box car and pushed
81 automobile through sand and
kout of mud he looked like one
81 own ancestors, with long,
De mustache and haggard eyes:
leeded only shave his head
ID and wear a pigtail to drop
@O years.
Pole and Jew Embrace.
lfhe way along he had been eX-
ang fear for the safety of a GER
MEND of his, who was also his
b The moment we arrived he
on starting at once to this
u house. In the street we
IA cry of JOY from the other
20 little old white-haired Jew
cunning across the street. The
met in the middle, threw their
Ground each other, slapping
ether on the back a score OF
and kissed each other, Polish
We were led off to the old