Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-11
WARSAW QUIETLY
AWAITS APPROACH
OF RED INVADERS
VaIuabIes Are Rushed to
Places of Security-Popu-
Iation Much Reduced.
BY GEORGE W1TTE.
BY Cable to The Star and Chicago
Daily News. Copyright. 1920.

BY Cable to The Star and Chicago
Daily News. Copyright. 1920.
WARSAW. August 10.-The first 100.-
600 have gone and the second 100000
are getting ready to follow. Warsaw
remaining 100000 people are preparing
to see it through. There is nothing more
pathetic than the sight of a city of
100000 inhabitants preparing for it's
occupation by the enemy Today the
streets were thronged with people wan
dering restlessly about, their faces
wearing the expression of prisoners
awaiting the verdict.
Uncertainty as to what this week
will bring forth is preying upon all
minds and working emotions up to
the point of hysteria. In the quarters
inhabited chiefly by the weather.
middle classes there was feverish ac-
tivity. Automobiles. trucks and horse
carts were being loaded with -furni-
ture. Thousands of vehicles of every
kind were drawn up against the curb
and men, women and children were
staggering from the houses to the
vehicles bent under heavy loads.
Refugees Crowd Streets.
1t was scenes like these that at
tracted to neighborhoods of this kind
thousands of those who had made up
their minds to stick it out to the bit
ter end. With morbid curiosity they
stood around, smoking cigarettes and
following with watchful eyes the
movements of those who were leav-
ing. AS a rule they remained silent.
but the faces of many showed that
they were fighting down a desire to
follow the example of these people
vious eyes and words followed each
wagon when. the door of the house
having been locked. the people drove
away.
Refugee professions move slowly
through the dense crowds in the mar
row. winding street. In two or three
days this exodus will have reduced
the city's population to about four
hfths of it's original size, and then. of
course, the number of those who will
wait until the last moment to fee will
be very large.
But it is still a large city that will
fall into the hands of the bolsheviki
The thought of those who are going
to stay about what sort of an occupa-
ton the bolsheviki will put into force
varies considera bly,. Most of them do
not believe in the reign of terror
theory. The prevalent idea is that
soviet government composed Of Poles
will take over the city administration.
Hotels. Too. Are Empty.
So far as the question of looting is
concerned most of the people shrug
their shoulders, but at the same time
they are not taking any chances.
There is an enormous amount of piano
moving these days. Framed pictures.
silver vases, tableware and other
things valued in good homes are being
carried through the streets every hour
of the day. and night. the carriers
eventually disappearing In some dark,
remote corner of the city. Even the
hotels are becoming empty. The
Fristol. where a week ago money was
the only argument understood in as
signing rooms, is now half empty.
Wherever one goes there are signs
of the evacuation. In the night time
the uninterrupted creaking of wheels
outside the windows speaks of what
is going on in the streets.