Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-12-09

America-BoIsheviki Tried to Solve
Own Problem by Foisting Thousands
of Their Sick on Poland.
The following statement was made
public by the Polish bureau of informa-
zion, telling Of the conditions which
Poland faces this coming winter:
"The Polish army has turned back
the Bolsheviki before Warsaw. With
the tension occasioned by danger Of
immediate attack over, m news of
the deplorable conditions in the city.
Tor the last two months 600 a day
have been dying in Warsaw from ty-
plus. Even before the sick and
wounded from the armies flooded the
city all hospitals were filled to ca
pacity with typhus and spotted fever
victims.
THE Bolshevist advance threw tens
Of thousands of sick and starving ref
Ggees on the city, many of whom have
Lad to remain there because they had
10 means Of getting out. Warsaw, nor
Inally a city Of 100000 inhabitants, to-
day has a population of 100000 and
home building has been at a standstill
for the last six years. Before the
Bolshevist advance the municipal au-
thorities were caring for 10000, the
majority Russian, who We're WITHOUT
homes of any sort.
"In June the agricultural ministry
estimated this years crops at about 60
per cent of normal. Of this potential
food supply more than half was in the
lands invaded by the Bolsheviki and is
a total loss.
Death of Thousands Predicted.
"The conditions that Warsaw faces
prevail to q greater or lesser extent
throughout the country. DR.. Jesse II.
Holmes of Swarthmore, who returned
in July from Poland, reports that thou
sands will die his winter from cold,
hunger and typhus in spite of relief
work now being carried on.
copeland today Doctor Holmes
: says. is fighting a far greater enemy
than the BolShcvists. Typhus has al
ready ragged in that country and next
winter an extreme epidemic all over
the country is expected
''In the first four months Of 1920
100000 refugees had come into the
towns and cities Of Poland, bringing
fresh waves Of disease with each new
wave Of eXileS. In the advance of the
Russians easily a million more have
beer turned out of their homes.
"The BolSheviki have tried to solve
their own problem by f~oistin@ thou
sands Of their sick ON the Poles. and
have been sending arnored trains be
fore their ADVANCE MO Poland loaded
with typhus victims.
Poor Poles in Worst Plight.
The story Of poland's refugees is
by itself a tragic history. Six years
ago Poland WAS modified for war-in
three different armies, fighting on two
sides OF tn" same question. In 1914
q million Poles united on the ideal of
an independent Poland were forced to
take service in the Russian, German
and Austrian armies, and more were
called each year While the war lasted.
poland thus drained of its man
power then became the theater of ac-
t~ivities. Whatever way the tide Of
battle flowed, the Polish plain was in
undated. At the beginning of the war
came the Russian successes and the iIR
vasion of Austrian Poland. The re-
treating Germans and AuStrians left a
trail of devastation in their wake and
drove before them all the refugees that
were able to travel and the victorious
Russians, led by advance guards of
Cossack cavalry, finished the work of
destruction as thoroughly rs possible
in the short time before the German
counter-off"nSivc. Thus twice in the
early days Of rl.c war, devastation and
the sad wave of refugees passed over
Poland.
"But Poland was to face this most
terrible texture of warfare again. The
German cnuntcr-tIlrust and the Rus
sian retreat commenced.
Plight Of Civilian Population.
THE details of a retreat are always
horrible, and the most horrible element
is llle D!lSllL Oh me clhilldl boDUlatlOnS.
Ordered destruction for military pur-
poses and the contiscation of all medi-
cal supplies and food is followed by the
vandalism of uncontrolled soldiers.
starvation and disease, the handmade
"ls Of war, aided by the awful syste-
matic destruction so efficient in he
,erman school OF warfare, continued
/, be Poland's lot,
"In 1918 came the end of the Euro
can conflict and the real commence
lent of Poland's struggle to realize
her dream of a free Poland.
1.-THE allied powers, the Red Gross
nd various relief committees from
i merica and Europe had hardly com
l.enced the fight against disease and
starvation: the Polish soldiers had but
legun to return to their homes and
factories when war came once more
10 Poland. Retreats, de%vastations
and more refugees. The Polish le-
pions which fought first against the
Russians and then against the Ger
mans were called once more to the