The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-08-04

Deaths 81 ThSusAnos Predicted TIL
Winter. In Spite - the hsiIsf Frer
An,eriea--0sIshsslki Tried to SEW,
Own Problem BY FsistIno Thousand
~ Their Sick On Poland
The following statement was made
public by the Polish bureau of inforina
tion. telling Of the conditions which
Poland faces this coming winter
The Polish army has turned back
the Bolsheyiki before Warsaw. With
the tension occasianed by danger OF
immediate attack over, comes news OF
the deplorabie conditions 10 the city.
For the last two months coo day
have been dying in Warsaw from ty-
plus. Even before the sick and
wounded from the armies flooded the
city all hospitals we're filled TO Gu
pacity with typhus and spotted fever
victims
The Bolshevist advance threw tens
of thousands OF sick and starving ref
ngees on the city. many OF whom have
had 10 remain there because they had
no means Of getting out Warsaw. nor
maily city OF 100000 inhabitants, to-
day has population of l.oo0oo0 and
home building has been ut a standstlll
for the last six years. Before The
Rolshevist advance the municipal au-
thorities were caring FOR 10000, the
majority Russian, who were without
homes Of any sort.
in June the agricultural ministry
estimated this years crops nj about 90
per cent Of normal. or this potential
food supply more than half was in the
lands invaded by the Boisheyiki and In
. total loss
Death Of Thousands Predicted.
"The conditions that Warsaw faces
prevail 10 greater or lesser extent
throughout the country DIR. Jesse II.
Holmes OF Swarthmore. who returned
In July from Poland. reports that thou
sands will die this winter from cold,
hunger and typhus In spite OF relief
work now being carried on.
Poland today Doctor Holmes
says. is fighting far greater enemy
than the Bolsheylsts. Typhus has al
ready ragged IN that country and next
winter an extreme epidemic NIL over
the country Is expected
''ln the first four months of 1920
2.5ne00 refugees bad come Into the
towns and cities Of Poland. bringing
fresh waves OF disease with each new
Aynve Of eSiles IN the advance Of the
Russians easily million more have
been turned ont ef their homes.
''rhe HalsheYili haye tried to solve /
their own problem by foistlnr thou /
sands nf their SICK on the Poles. and 1
have been Sending urmorcd trains be.
fore their advance Into reland loaded /
With iyphus victims
Poor Poles in Worst Plight.
''rhs story OF i'piands refugees Is
by itself tragic history Six years
ago Poinpd WAS mohlllzed for wur--ln
three different armies, fighting on two
sides of the snme question, In 1914 (
, milton poles united on the ideal OF
IN Independent Poland were forced 10 I
lake service Ia the Russian, German
nj Austrian armies. and more were
called each year while the war lasted.
poland thus drained OF las man
power then became the thenter OF ne
fivItIes. Whatever way the tide OF
battle lowed. the Polish plain was IN
AZ the beginning OF the war
came IN. Russian successes and the In
It..1a no. r.s.
treating Germans and Austrians left
rail- OF devastation In their wake and
iiove before them NIL the refugees that
we're able 10 travel and the victorious
Russians, led by advance guards Of
poasack cavalry. finished the work OF
ms Thoroughly as possible
IN the shor, time before the German
rounter offensive. Thus twice In the
euriy days Of the war. devastation and
he sad wave OF refugees passed over
Poland.
but Poland WAS 10 face this most
terribie feature Of warfare again. The
Sertnsn counter-thruHi and the Rus
Iian retreus commenced.
Plight " Civilian Population.
The details Of retreat are always
horrible. and the most horrible element
: the plight Of the civilian populations,
ordered destruction for military pur-
roses and the eosfisestion Of all medi-
al supplies and food Is followed by the
landallstn Of uncontrolled soldiers.
starvation and disease. the handmade
ms Of war. aided by the awful sysie-
matte Destruction SO efficient ID the
iermsn school Of warfare, continued
o BIZ Pplnnd's lot
In 1918 came the end OF the Euro
,ean conflict and the real commence
nent OF Poland's struggle TO realize
ler dream of free Poland.
The allied powers. the Red Gross
md various rslief committees from
America and Europe had hardly com.
nencsd the fight against disease aud
starvation the Polish soldiers had but !
'eeun TO return TO their homes and
octOftes when wsr came once more
D Poland. Retreats, deyaststlons
"A more refu9eeA The Polish le-