Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-26
They Arrive in Paris From
Warsaw With Stories of
German Irickery, of Mil
itarists and Junker Land
Grabbers - The Judas
Tracts.
BY STERLING HEILIG.


Ieinched baggage (trunks and valises
wrapped in Army blankets). They
are in battered uniforms. and have
lsorrowful. perplexed looks.
| These girls come from Poland. They
were ordered out of Poland by our
own and allied authorities, because
not prepared to protect them. They
lcome, leaving their hearts behind
them with starving women and chill
idren, while German alleged labor
unions at Carlsruhe and Frankfort
hold up the revictualizing trains en-
route for them.
They tell a tale of Poland betrayed
by the malfgnity of Hun militarists,
junker landgrabbers and big indus
trial schemers that makes their eyes
snap with American indignation, un-
awaiting. But who knows?
Tell these things to the American
people," says Miss -.
No names, The girls hope to go
back. and to reveal their identity
would subject them to real dangers
from hypocritical sources. The entire
story is tricky. Many may hesitate to
believe in the prisoners of Poland.
scurrying underground, before they
shall overrun again the surface.
There be land rats and water rats"
quotes Miss -. water thieves and
land thieves"
Every one knows that Russian ar
mics against Poland have been Off
cered by German militarists. From
majors and captains to leutenants
and the famous Prussian non-coms. 1t
is these who have given cohesion and
science to the bolshevist rabble. The
girls know it from sick prisoners
across the lines. from their own eye
sight and hearing, from boasts, even.
Since the girls arrival in Paris, Ger
man-manned bombing planes have,
been brought down over Warsaw.
On the other hand, German agents
have been ceaselessly egging on the
Poles to fight the Russians. and prom
ising them cooperation in the holy
work of wipins out the bolshevist an
archy and looting. They have fur
liam third hands, with arms and mu-
nltions-just enough to breed con-
idence. at the right moments, in their
crooked promises of more to come.
At the same moment trainloads of
German munitions were going
sian front, as friendly gift to the
lbolshevists. to smash the Poles.
ct is like boys who sic" on two
Gogs to fght)
And this was while so-called rail-
road unions of Baden and Wurttem-
berg were holding up French revic-
tualing and munition trains for Po-
land. Rumania and the Sloyaks.
They will never return to France"
they laughed. those freight cars.
They are confiscated"
There is worse-the peryerting of
religion.
Thus 1 first saw some of the Judas
tracts
Observe the booklet. with high
class colored plates" said Miss -.
One of them showed a mystical
Madonna and Child, like an aparition
in the air, smiling blessing on Prus-
sian infantry in the act of bayoneu-
ting Russian troops in fight, while a
procession of devout Poles, singing
hymns. with banners. issue from a
rescued church to thank their Prus-
sian deliverers.
The horror and craft of it," said
the American girl. sis that it repre-
sents the Russian armies. not as boil
shevists. Indifferent and hostile to all
religion, but as Russian reactionaries,
ready to bring back the orthodox
domination of Polish Catholics, faith
full to the Pope.
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The idea is plausible enough to
befool thousands of excited Poles"
affirmed everywhere that famous Rus
sian generals, aristocrats and nation
alists at heart, have been serving the
bolshevist armies only temporarily, in
the interests of the old regime, the
old imperialistic aims. all the way to
the possession of Constantinople"
The blacklist detail of this tract, she
said. is that by evidence of costume,
ETC.. the color-plate had been origi-
nally prepared for the German drive
on Poland at the beginning of the
war Now it is re-edited.
Hyat still CT icfo ;e l.;
other" interrupted Miss -. Look
at this booklet cover. Was it not OBJ
viously prepared long years prior to
1914, even? Observe the medallion of
the kaiser. side by side with Pope
Leo XIII. And the kaiser is repre-
scented as young man. You can see
how they tinkered it up hastily for
1914. with a reminiscent reference to
Pope Leo XIII, long dead. They could
do no more with it for use in 1920,
except to make it serve as an apology
for the German invasion of 1914, to
show German democracy still today
what the kaiser impudently claimed
to be in his power-the liberator of
the Polish Catholics from Russian or
thodoX dangers"
These insidious tracts are full of
Indictments against the Russian gen.
| erals. from Broussiloff to Wrangel.
"Old Russian prosecutions before
1906" says Miss -, ARE pictured
as the dangers of tomorrow. 1t is
true that Poles were banished to ST.
IBERIA for being too liberal, but most
| of it was religious. Entire villages
were surrounded by Cossacks, to be
inscribed on orthodox Russian Church
registers. But when the Poles are not
| worked up by these old religious SOU
venirs they infinitely prefer the Rus
sian memory to the Prussian. The
Prussian prosecutions were different.
They were systematic, sustained, with
| the one idea of crushing out all Polish
! nationality from Prussian Poland.
against Russia-to make them forget
Prussia.
1.-THE girls told me about the vres-
chen. the strike of primary school
! children in Prussian Poland" obliged
| to say the prayer in German. When,
sive fines on parents), all school in
struction had to be in German. Chill
dren who knew no German were
forced to memorize like parrots.
There was the Prussian colonization
commission. with a billion marks
ton, part misapplied Polish taxes).
| Its object was the compulsory buying
UP, at derisory estimates. Of Polish
| real estate. There was the famous
peasant, Grzymala, who bought a field
| and asked permission to build a
! house. 1t was refused-he had a field
and not a farm. He bought a gypsy
| wagon, and lived in it on his land.
| Hundreds initiated him. Then Prussia
forbade all cooking in wagons. and
| there was no appeal.
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They prohibited Germans to buy in
Polish shops. They prohibited Poles
to have private classes in history or
! literature. The courts refused testi-