The Penn's Grove record., 1920-08-13
Poland in Peril

The story has been reported by Red
Cross representatives in Russia that
some months ago Russian peasants
tore up a railroad track just before a
Red Cross relief train was due and as
it came along and left the tracks to
the destruction of its contents and
death to the good people aboard the
Russians jumped up from behind a
slight hill waving their arms and
shouting like children at a Fourth of
July celebration. The arrival of the
train had been announced at the town
ahead that the hunger and suffering
might be assuaged until it came. But
the poor unknowing and constituencies
native had become intoxicated with
his own power when unbridled by po-
lice and ~constabulary, recognized
agents of peace, which have been re-
moved by the Bolsheviki and all that
he saw was a chance for a lark and
confiagration of a railroad wreck just
for his own amusement.
The prototype of this excursion is
seen in the advance of the Bolsheviki
army into Poland. There is no dis
and little semblance of an
army as these proletarians range over
the fields, some bearing guns but a
large number with all manne of farm
and tools as weapons.
They are a poor deluded people out
for a lool on the grandest scale, to
kill and to conquer a state for no pur-
other than the doing. Should
they succeed in over throwing the
Polish state, that outermost bulwark
If democratic government, Bolshevism
With all its horrors and atrocities will
De brought to the very doors of civil
The possibilities opened up by this
step include most every danger that
vas brought on by the advance of the
Germans across Belgium and France
ust six years ago this month.
One of the most necessary securities
or the peace of the world reiterated
10 forcibly by Senator Lodge three
years ago while the war was still in
was the establishment and
maintenance of Poland as a buffer
against the development of Ger
many to the eastward into Russia.
This state was established by the
of Nations and it has every
to expect aid from the Allied
governments in this crisis which has
threatened it's very existence.
We are told that it is not Germany
hat is the aggressor. Can not Ger
many laugh up her sleeve as she sees
his obstacle in her eastward path re-
moved without so much as raising her
,wn finger ? A German army is al
,eady being massed along the Polish
border and the German peasants are
,eing secretly armed with all manner
If arms. The Germans are all too
to avenge the loss of Posen,
Oanzig and parts of East Prussia
rom her control and with Poland boil
German agents will have fer
lie soil for her insidious propaganda.
German influence behind the Red
movement can only be surmised but
he result could not be more to the lik-
ng of the advocates of "schrecklick-
Are the Allies to live up to their
word or did they bite off more than
hey could chew by giving Poland her
Independence?
The sympathy of the rank and file
If England, France and America is
With Poland, but sympathy does not
lold back an invader. Assistance of
/ very material sort must be given or
me of the greatest accomplishments
If the World War is to be rendered
lull by the Russian Reds. Or are they
to stand by until all the damage
las been done and then go in and win
he side of the right and just.
In the meantime are we going to see
Poland become tired of Allied inaction
md turn to an eager Germany for as
,istance ? Are we to allow her to
to choose between Prussianism
md B%olshevism ?