Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-28
Polish Refugee Camp
In India Grateful
For Americans Aid
Stors and Stripes Raised
To Top Of Most as Sian
Of Deep Appreciation
By A. T. STEELE.
Foreisn CORRESPONDENT OF The Star a
Chicago Daily News

Foreisn Correspondent OF The Star and
Chicago Daily News
KARACHI, Feb. 27. The Stars
and Stripes fly from the staff in the
center OF Polish refugee camp in
the blazing desert near this Western
India city. The United States ban
ner was raised recently by sympa-
thetlc Poles as token of their an
probation OF the gifts and co-opera-
ton they have received from Amer
lean soldiers and officers in this
country.
we had no other way of show
Ing how grateful We are" one of
the refugees said to your CORE
spondent.
An American officer, Mai. T. Cab
reskl Of Oil City. Pa. was nv escort
on my visit to the Polish encamp-
ment which is an island of tents
surrounded by some of the bleakest
desert Imaginable Here more than
1000 Polish refugees, 80 per cent of
whom are women and children, are
pausing few weeks on their long
Journey to new homes, new farms
and new life in British East Africa
More than 1000 have passed
through In the last few months.
All except babies born in Russia are
part OF the great immigrant ton from
Poland through the Soviet Union.
which began with the Russo
German occupation of their mother
country in 1899.
Children, at
TINS is one of two camps for
Polish refugees in India. At jam
magyar, midway between here and
Bombay, 400 Polish orphan children
brought from Russia are being fed
lodged and educated on land do
mated by Jaw Sahib. Both camps
are maintained by the Polish refu-
gee government with funds provided
by the British government. A third
Will soon be established.
1t Is not an exciting life that the
Polish fugitives are living, but at
least their essential bodily REQUIRE
ments are being satisfied. They are
decently clothed and are getting
three meals day, of which the fol-
lowing menu-today's-is typical:
Breakfast. sardines, bread. marga-
rine and tea; lunch, dumplings with
sauerkraut, fresh vegetable salad.
bread. margarine and tea supper.
borsch, Polish goulash, potatoes,
bread and tea.
The children, the mainstays of
future Poland receive special treat
ment. Capt. Harry Levitt, British
medical officer. said that periodic
examinations show an average i'm
provement of Is per cent in the
condition of the children in less
than month.
Many of them arrive in camp in
an advanced state of undernourish-
ment. Brief epidemics of typhoid
and scabies have been quickly
checked. The camps commandant
Is an English officer Capt. Southey
Allan. Although he has a couple of
British assistants. most of the ad-
ministration is managed by the
Poles themselves.
Ex-Chicagoan in Camp.
Among the few elderly men who
comprise the camps male popula-
tion-younger men are all fighting
with the Free Polish Army-is a
former Chicagoan, Michael Borla-
kowski, who says he labored ID years
Tor the Illinois Malleable Iron Co.
Having made small fortune in |
America, Borlakowski returned to |
his homeland, bought an estate and |
settled down to the existence of a |
country gentleman. The war ended |
all that, and now penniless again, |
Michael's only dream is to return to |
Chicago, where four brothers still /.
reside.
These Polish refugees have few
luxurles and little money. They !
would be deeply thankful for books, |
magazines and scientific works in
English and Polish from their
countrymen in the United States.
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