El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-08-16
REDS MAKING EFFORT
TO RULE ENTIRE WORLD

shall cease with victory over the
] Poles. are being subjected to papa
] ganda which declares F'renchmen VIII
] De shot on siEht4but that The Germans
are friends who soon will be comrades
/ These admissions have been corrob-
/ GRATED by Information gathered by the
/ correspondent in conversation with
! German representatives Of East Prus-
sian newspapers who interviewed
] Bolshevik army chiefs Bolshevik
7 leaders declare that within three
weeks they viii completely control
] Poland, including the Polish corridor.
which they intend to occupy, leaving
a 10 kilometer neutral zone about
Danzig.
When the correspondent arrived
here. crossing the border at Ger
wone by the aid OF Poles and a wagon
filled with straw. he called on the
Polish soviet commissary who recent
" was established IN offices by the
I Bolshevik military.
American Ignored
Han Scharnewski, The commissary.
! Is a Polish Jew with protruding eyes
and blond mustache and wears a
white collar. He acknowledged the
correspondents greeting and then sat
down to dinner, Ignoring The Ameri-
can At the commissaryis side Rus
sian soldier armed with a revolver
stood watch and all conversation was
COmmissary's assistant a former
German officer, said this Russian was
a soviet representative who watched
all business transacted by Scharnew-
ski and reported 10 the soviet central
government, although he never inter-
fered with the commissary procedure.
When the commissary finished eat
ing his meal OF soup. steak smothered
with onions. potatoes and beer, he
talked 70 his office. directing the
correspondent TO wait After an hour
he returned, demanded the CORE
spondent's passports which he gave a
cursory inspection. and then re-
turned to his office.
After waiting two hours, the cor
respondent wandered about talking 70
inhabitants, among who were many
Jews. He was told they did not know
whether they we're going under Rus Z
sian, Polish or German rule. but said /
they had heard rumors there would /
be a plebiscite in which the people 1
would be permitted to vote whether I
they desired 20 adhere TO Russia or 4
Germany. Inhabitants declared such /
a vote would be Overwhelmingly for I
Germany.
Eager for News.
Everywhere the people asked for /
news OF the war and other news Of I
the world. saying all intelligence /
came from the German border
---- y " u ll4h e EaLlQla Win German
guards who sometimes gave them
German newspapers.
There is no commerce with the rest
OF Russia by telephone, telegraph or
railway and inhabitants Of villages
along The frontier have been existing
9n the products OF the farms. They
1eclare unless commerce IS soon re-
Eived with Germany they viii expe-
Renee suffering
Villages about Eolno appeared
although peasants were
ragged barefooted and despondeut
and presented a poverty stricken an
pearance- In the fields were fat cat
Ne tended by girls. while boys and I
women we're harvesting wheat. Along
ne road were many iron crucifixes
~ way side shrines at which the
pious populace worshfped-
IN kolno there is less evidence Of
me recent war than in the towns OF
sast Prussias where broken statues.
Scared houses and ruins Of buildings L
5tlll bear witness to the damage done
y the Russian invaders in 1914.