Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1921-05-26
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction
in Europe Follow the Great
World War;
POLAND NOW STANDING ALONE
Heroic Nation, Herself In Dire Need
is the Only Barrier to Bolshevism,
Fighting the Battle for
Civilization.
Article XXI.
BY FRANK COMERFoRD.

1H6 VI ASuSSIu anu uhA Wv
are up to the nations of the world.
RuSSia's problem affects the world. 1t
must be solved by the powers in con-
cert It's solution will make the first
step toward rest. The complete solu-
ton of the problem of unrest must be
decided by each nation in It's own way.
| asked two important Slav leaders
for their opinions as TO the proper
policy the world should adopt toward
the bolSheviks. and the Russian prob
lem. In Prague spoke to President
Mazyrik of Czecho- Slovakia; in War
saw | interviewed General Pilsudski
president of Poland. Both answered
the question in practically the same
words Leave Russia alone; let the
Russian people solve the Russian
question"
What is the Russian situation? A
minority has seized the government
and is holding it by force. The form
of government adopted cannot last.
Communism will destroy itself if given
sufficient rope. Already it has de-
stroyed production and brought on
chaos The great danger boishevism
offers The outside world is its effort
to organize the unrest of the world
and lead il to revolution.
Pc and's Hard Position.
Poland is the barrier holding the
"Red" wave of bolshevism back. Pc
land is a new state 1t is almost as
! big as France in population and about
the size of Germany in area. Three
thrones fell to make d presidential
seat Tor the Polish epublic-Austl1a,
Rsssia and Germany. The Polish peo-
pie are intense in their patriotism.
They are individualists. They are
against the Red" terror. But Poland
is poor, terribly poor The war
brought her to the point of hunger.
She is now facing starvation. She. is
doing world guard duty. Her army is
holding closed the door OF bO.slIeVik
Russia. 1t is an army made UP of men
OF zeal and determination. | have
never seen men sustain their spirit
under more trying conditions. Think
Of men without shoes facing the Red"
army; hunger and cold attacking
them but standing i'll their places
holding the front. When | was III
Europe in October, 1919. l saw this
magnificent army. Forty per cent of
8 them were without shoes. There were
less than 10000 outfits for 100000
men. They were hungry, they were
cold. Back home their loved ones
were not hungry. they were starving;
they were not cold, they were freezing.
Still these men stood at their posts. |
alked the matter over with the chief
ef state. General Pilsudski, and | shall
ever forget the manner, the tone and
he words Of this Roosevelt of the
5lavs
''Our army will hold the pass; the
Red terror will not bring the torch
20 Europe unless winter and want
force us to retreat. Chattering teeth
and pam pinched stOmachs will kill
,he morale Of any army In time. The
nd0mitable spirit of our men has
vithStoOd hardShips that might have
destroyed an army made up Of men
eSs infamed with the passion to make
secure their newly achieved freedom.
We are without transportation facili-
9 ties even for the front. Our soldiers
are ragged and hungry. They do not
complain. nor do | complain for them,
I. but facts are facts and these facts
I belong to the world. Our army is
lighting a world cause and against a
world evil. Civilization is in the bal
/. ance and every citizen of civilization
a.. has a right to know the conditions I'M
Ter which Poland is doing world guard
tuty.
y Fight Under Frightful Conditions.
I'VE have no ambulanceS at the
& front and our soldiers going into bat
lie know that If they are wounded and
re not fortunate enough to fall near
field hospital, they are doomed TO
lie Of neglect and exposure or come
!, death by torture from Chinese mer-
Charles who make up the torture bat
tlion of the Red army. We have no
fntlseptica anu our wounded men are
kpOSed TO Gangrenous death. We
re without aneSthetics and wounded
zen are required to submit to opera
ions while keenly alive to every SEN
alton Of the knife.
Help must come, and 1t must come
soon. Our troops are willing to fight
j sn; this is their glorious spirit, but
hey are only flesh and there is point
9 which the finest spirit surrenders to
gid and hunger and pain
Appeals were made to the peace
Gable for help. They fell on deaf ears.
Great stocks of clothing were locked
:, in England and France while the
slish army shiyered at the b0lshevik
Rnt. | saw locomotives and empty
Eight cars on the side tracks in Eu-
DE at the time Poland was fighting
worlds fight and crying for trans
#r,atiOn
gJThp boISheyiks must be shut in.
&aey mus be confiaed to Pussia. II