The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-15
COHEN BRINGS HIS FAMILY AWAY FROM
 VANISHED POLAND
Returns to Birmingham With Three Sisters and Brother Whom He Found There
 on Point of Starvation
By WILLIAM THOMPSON

Morris Cohen, Birmingham mer- chant, has returned Ito Birmingham after four-months' search through Europe in an effort to find some trace of his three sisters and brother who were driven away from their home by the advancing bolshevik armies and whom he had not heard from for nearly two years.
 After searching through the ruins of dozens of cities in different countries he discovered his little brother and sisters. brother had gone without the proper They had been going for days with prac- tically nothing to eat, and his little food so long that his body was unde- veloped and he hadn't the strength of a four-year-old child.
 The boy is eight years old. A few weeks ago he ate the first square meal he had had in nearly two years. MT. Cohen's three sisters are grown, but they, too, were facing starvation in an effort to flee from the bolshevik armies.
 MT. Cohen brought his brother and three sisters back to Birmingham with him. They have been unable to accus- tom themselves yet to eating three square meals a day The little brother is under the care of a physi- elan and is gradually regaining his health.
 Mir. Cohen left his chain of grocery stores in Birmingham in charge of a rel ative about four months ago and started for Europe, after he had failed to hear from his relatives for nearly two years.
 CONDITIONS
 Speaking of conditions in Europe and the people he saw there. MT. Cohen said:
 s'My brother and sisters have been liv- ing in Poland on practically nothing for the past two years. I have sent them money every month, but during the last year or so the allied governments have returned the money because they knew it would be stolen the minute it was in bolshevik territory.
 But my brother and sisters were only part of thousands of people who are facing the same conditions. People over there are dying daily because they cannot get even bread to eat. The govern ments are being robbed by officers of the army. who are living in luxury, while the people are starving around them. There Is no silver copper or Soid. | There is nothing but paper money and | it is practically worthless. Before the war two rubles were worth an American silver dollar. Today an American dol lar is worth about 1000 rubles. A single | loaf of stale bread will easily bring 10,0oO ! paper rubles.
 l q believe that a revolution will occur | in Poland in short time. There IS no | business. There is no fuel, no lights of any kind after dark and the people are not allowed upon the streets after 9 | o'clock. These are the conditions that exist where the bolshevik armies have not yet invaded. The conditions which | now exist in the territory which they control are too horrible to describe. RED SOLDIERS | When a soldier enters train, all the people, even the women and chil- dren, have to get up and offer their chairs. A young woman was thrown from moving train and killed simply because she had failed to see soldier enter the coach and had not offered nm her seat This is not hearsay With me- | I saw it with my own eyes, These are the conditions which ,exist 1 throughout practically all of Poland. In Russia where the bolshevik armie are in complete control the conditions are much more horrible. though during the l last year or so no one has been able lo get any first-hand information rom that country. Allied help is certainly needed | at the present time, and if 1t does not come. there are thousands of people who | are going to die simply because tney | cannot even get bread to eat