Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-16
POLISH Terrorism
HITS EAST GAL|C|A
Troops RepTisais for Ukrai-
Man !ncendiarism Are De-
cIarad Too Brutal.
BY JOHN ELLIOTT.

Ep-C.al patch to The Star
BERLIN. October 16.-A reign of
terror unparalleled in Europe since the
Lloyd George government sent the no.
tcrious BLACK and Tans' into Ireland
Is now prevailing in the Province OF
East Galicis, where a Polish military
expedition is Furnishing the Ukrainian
peasantry because of recent destruction
by fire of many farms owned by Poles.
The wave of incendiarism has been
> .crlped TO 2 terroristic organization
which hopes. to tear East Galicia from
Polish rule and unite its 100000
Ukrainian inhabitants with the Ukraine
Republic, thus adding to the strength
CT the Russian Soviet government in
Western Europe.
Flogging Is Practiced.
N the Ukrainian villages of the dis
frict priests and peasants are being
b..sally f1ogged with the knout ca lash
consisting of a tapering bundle of
leather thongs twisted with wire and
hardened so as to mangle the body
and women shamefully mishandled, the
matched cottages of the peasants UNI
rooted, schools closed, cooperative
stores looted, libraries demolished and
ruinous acquisitions for foodstuffs lev
led on the villages by the Polish Cav
airy and police sent into the country
side on so-called mission of pacifica-
ton"
The object of the military is to put
down a terroristic campaign begun by
a secret Ukrainian organization, which
is instigating high school youths to burn
crops and barns of Polish landowners.
Unfortunately, in the discharge of their
duty of restoring order. the Polish
troops are furnishing indiscriminat ely
the innocent with the guilty and SO
kindling a spirit of Sedition and re-
venge among the Ukrainians living in
East Galicia, who look back with re-
gret upon the easy-going pre-war
Austrian rule
This correspondent has just returned
from a trip to Lemberg, the capital of
the afflicted provinces, where he lis
tened to details of cruelties Rnd bar
barism of the Polish troops that would
be incredible If they did not come from
sources whose trustworthiness is be-
yond question.
PreIate Talks of Situation.
The correspondent had the oppor-
tunity to discuss the situation with
Count Andre Scheptycky. Metropolitan
of the Greek Catholic Church in East
Galicia, just after the prelate had re-
turned from Warsaw, where he pro-
tested to Polish authorities regarding
the deplorable effect the tactics of the
troops are having upon the Ukrainian
population living in Poland.
This so-celled 'pacif1cation, the
Metropolitan declared, has resulted in
outrages connived at by police and
military officers in the villages where
they are supposed to keep order. The
troops Systematically destroy public and
private property of the Ukrainian rural
population"
In this campaign of repression at
least 100000 Ukrainisns have been ar
rested and thrown in Jail, including
I6 of 26 representatives of the Ukrain-
ian National party in the last SeJm,
as the Lower House of the Polish Parlia-
ment is called One of the priests
logged by Polish soldiers-Eugen
Mandziy. living at Bobatkivici-has
died from the effect Of the blows given
him.
Penalties on Leaders.
The ''pacificatory" system Of the
Polish soldiers consists of raiding
villsge suspected of being implicated
in the destruction of the farm of
neighboring Polish landowner. The
principal men Of the village-the
mayor, priest, heads Of cooperative So
cieties and leaders CT sports and read
ing clubs-are summoned before the
commander of the Polish detachment
THE Ukrainians are required to give in
formation regarding acts Of incendiar-
ism and to hand over all arms.
If their answers are considered uIl-
estisfactory-and this is generally the
sase-they get so or 80 blows from the
knout, which used to be employed in
Poland only by emissaries of the Rus
eian Gar If the victims faint under
Che blows, they are sometimes revived