New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 26, 1915, Page 3

Store Closed Friday Afternoons y I et Our Values Satul Struggle lor Warsaw Recalls | Days of Kosciuszco - = & TP R Outing Coats for We Mur"l"g sfleclals /. Liondon, July 28—(Corresponder{ce g ot perate fighting now .going on around : 81x90 S eaml @SS Warsaw and throughout the: Eastern p S X ! on theé calossal tragedy of Poland. the GOLF'NE COA Sheets, deep h e n! S 9 | second that unhappy country has en- 7 extl'a good q u all ty ica to its depths when Kosciuszco went 1N MARD, D) 5 i there to tell Poland’s own story and | Polish liberator in one of the public made, agood 75c value | sauares of Washington. CHINCHILL A COA 1'ing’ compared with what Poland is 3 | mow ‘undergoing, the entire theater of The lates and cmartest models of the season. Checked 2:::_\":,:!;;;; oealgm‘?e:gfx?;?nr?i;;ml::;: popular and justly so. Every summer girl should have {'the country from the east, Austrian at $10.00, $11.50 and $12.75 are he best VRIUES yOU CAR ;. armies from the south, and, German w1dth ‘warth 12 1-2c o 20c yard, of The Associated Pressy—The des- | ' : - | zone of operations centers attention | dured the first having stirred Amer- s : Especially Smart Coats at ¥7.50, $10.00, $14.50 and heavy COttOH, we“} left its, memories in the statue of the But that first tragedy was as noth- Bastern fighting being within the ter- patterns in many. different color combinations. They aréy i White Chinchilla coats at $10,00, $14.75 and $18.95 3l = armies from the north and west, all | compressing Peland as in a double | vice from four sides, marching and flghting on a scale of unprecedented | magnitude, and leaving a train of wreck and' desolation even greater than that of Belgium or Serbia. This i8 the testimony of disinterested eye- witnesses, Polish, English and '‘Amer- ican, who have recently traversed the striken regicns, including C. C. Gibson of .the Rockefeller Foundation, who declared on his return that this was one of the greatest tragedies the world had known, the devastation of Bel- gium shrinking in comparison. News Riz!dly Censored. Such telegraphic news as trickles through from. Poland, except official reports ‘of military eperations from the, three sides is' censored and garbled and gives only the picture of fighting, without that of the prostrate country under the héels of the fighters pressing from four sides. But from eye-witnesses . returning, from Polish student refugees from the scouragecd, district, and from letters to those who have sought asylum here, there.is a mass, of information on the real conditigns at . the sceme of these gigantic Eastern operations. 4] Much of this information flows into the hands of Miss Laurence Alma- Tadema, daughter of the great Eng- lish artist, who for three months has been ‘working day and night as the secretary and directing genius of the Poligh relief committee; whose officers and patrons’ embrace about every name of note in England—peers, cabi- net members, &mbnlsadoru, artists and authore. ““Think of the magnitude of this ap- paling Polish tragedy,” said Miss Al- ma-Tadema to a representative of The ‘Associated. Press. “It is difffcult for us in England or America, with con- ‘[‘ditions sevenie, to cast the mind’s eye New Haven,, July 26.—H., Kema, & Japanese well knonn city, shot and killed ht tel early yesterday unsuccessful a.ttenwt to shoot Mrs. | ry Roan of this city, who w\m his uhmp-niol for the night.- thy 1 pllice Mrs, Roan may d:fi% n#n Makayama. shot “flw let grazing her ear, owing to her con- nued. réfusals to run:away with him. | she is.now'in New HavVen hospital, t'aving a nervous, breakdown as a re- silt of the affair. Makayama left three ‘lgttern gealed, which told of his intentions fto himself, Mrs. Roan and a third party whom:the police cantot identify. He lwd visited Mrs. Roan at -‘a - nearby sWmmer resort and persuaded “her to chme to.this city with him. During the night he had urged her to run away, but she Tefused. She. told the police 'he had ripped up a sheet and bound her to the bed during their oc- clipancy of the room. = P b / STRONG FIELDS ENTERED. “Detroit, Mich., July. 26.—Althéugh ihe program for the opening;of {De- bit’s Grand Circuit meet at the state r grounds track this afternoon was rshadowed by. the. big:-stake races to’ cdrhe later in thé week, the card | wag an-exceptionally good one. Strong delds' had been entered for each of the tour events Wwhich Were 2:08 trots $1,000; 2: 10, trot $1,000; '2:10 . trot, $1,000; 2:10 'pace $2,000; 2:08 pace L Rats Spread Tivesin; think of the disease known tobe carried by rats. - - Then think of the Barc possibil- of rats coming in contact with food you mayeat. Rats will cut their way to flour, meal, meat, vegetables, or any other food.. Kill i the rats in self defence, is sure death to rats, but harmless to hu- mian beings. Dries the rat | op without ' the sligivtest odor, 25¢, 50c, and $1.00, 6-1b. pail, $5.00. At Seed, Hard: ware,: Drug and General Stores. H : Booklet in evely can. *‘How toDestroy. Rats. Batanieal Mfg: Co. Philadelphis; Ps kill ss_Furope sp the fact that T’fig%he' titanic Eiagm batties are be- 1 ing ‘fought on Polish soil. And it ig not anly a gigantic struggle, of invad- ing armies from without, one follow- ing ‘another ‘with /all their train of ruin and desolation, but it partakes almost of civil conflict’ with Pole fighting against Pale. ' Brother Agiinst Brother. {“There: are,” she went on, “about twalve million - Russian Poles, and about the same nunrber of Austrian nnq Prugsian Poles. All of them have h!.ve thét intense longing to see Po- land rise again as'a unified kingdom. And yet of these twenty-four mil- lion Poles, a million Polish soldiers are fighting in the Russian ranks, and dnother million are fighting in the Austrian and German ranks—literally brother against brother. One of the reports reaching me tells, of a body of Polish infantry on the Russian side, charging at a body of the enemy, with bayonets raised and the battle- crys ringing from bath sides—only to distinguish as they came to grips that both were shouting the ‘cry of Poland —and on that instant, as if inspired by a common impulse, every bayonet was lowered and every man in the facing 1anks fell on his knees and im their comman Janguage breathed the Lord's \prayer. That was Poland’s prayer on the battlefield of this terrible Eastern conflict. $ ‘‘Here s another thoroughly au- thenticated case,” said Miss; Alma-Ta- dema: “A Polish infrantryman raised his rifle and fired point blank at’ an'| advancing foe, only to see him pitch forward and hear him ecry out in Polish, “My God I leave a wife and three children.’ And this agonizing dying cry in Polish rang in the ears of the brother Pole who had fired the shot, torturing him night and day, un- til he literally went mad and was taken from the ranks a raving maniac. Loyalty Rewarded. “It was natural that the Russian Pole should cast'his lot with Russia, and this loyalty has been rewarded by the inspired proclamation of Grand Duke Nicholas promising freedom for Poland, a pledge which every Russian Pole accepts in good faith as fore- shadowing the reunification of the Polish nation. On the other hand the Galielan Poles showed a perfectly natural first movement of allegiance to Austria which had given them the right of their own faith and languagé and'some semblance of freedom. This {and thée laws of compulsory military ' service brought almost a million Poles into the Austro-German ranks to fight against their brethers in the Russian ranks. And yet in both Aus- (ria and Prussia the _overwhelming | majority of the Poles hre at heart | solidly with the kingdom of Poland." When Mr. Gibson of the Rockefel- ler Foundation returned from Poland hé told Miss Alma-Tadema of (he terrible scenes he had witnessed in the : stricken regions. Together they planned for extensive measures of re- lief, to’be sent through Germany with | the approval of the British Foreign Office. Germany consented, but the officials here doubted -the good falth ¢ | ‘When the steamer Eastland, with : more than 2,000 persons aboard, cap- slzed in the Chicago river every avail- able - police reserve and- ambulance was rushed to the scene, where hun- dreds of persons struggled about the narrow landing on the Clark street bridge, which commanded a view of the steamer. The bridge soon wa$ covered with shrieking humanity, and the police had to usé their clubs'in an effort to clear it, Tugs apd small craft responded to the emergency call and bore boatload after boatload from the upturned hull to the landing, where the victims were rushed in am- bulances and patrol wagons to hospi- tals. There were pitiful scenes as bodies were brought to the surface by divers. In the accompanying il- lustration are shown the steamer Eastland and the river front and the Clark street bridge where the boat went down. of Germany's letting large supplies of food pass across Germany to Poland. And so the negotiations halted and now. another plan is on foot. to get supplies into Poland by way of Switz- erland ‘without pus;ng through Ger- man hands. Twélve Children Die Every Day. | One of the scenes Mr. Gibson pic- } tured was a Polish village where he passed a cemetery toward dusk and saw a. crowd collected, On lnquiry.l he learned it was the joint funeral of | twelve children ,who had died that ; day; and l;e learned further that this was the normal average in this and other stricken villages—twelve child- | ren a day dying of starvation. At one | point he noted an old woman who | had crawled sixteen kilometers to get ! a handful of black bread. These were merely a few instances out of a great number which led him to- the conclusion that the desolation in the wake of the drmies in Poland was greater than that in Belgium, where he ‘had made a similar inspection, The Polish student group here is al- 8o recelving frequent mail advices from their friends in the various parts of Poland. One of the last posted of | these student leters summed up re- cent advices which got through . as | follows: ' Germans Seize Ground. “Out of 127,000 square kilometers in old Poland, 84,000 square kilome- ters have now been occupied by the Austro-German armies. The depart- ments which have suffered most are Kalfska, Plotrowska, Kielecka, Ra- | dowska, Suwolska, and Plocka; nlso; four districts of the government of Lonisynsky, ten districts of Warsaw which is a department half the slzef of Wales in addition to the city of | ‘Warsaw, four districts of Lubelskicj and five in Chlemmskiy. Out of 12,- 000,000 inhabitanis of this region, 9,- 000,000 have suffered. of 27,000 villages, 5,500 or about 20 per cent. are partially destroyed, and another 1,000 villages are completely leveled to the ground, not a trace of them re- maining beyond the heaps of smould- ering ‘rubbish and ruin.” The peasantry are pictured as mov- ing about like great tribes of gypsies over the blackened fields, carrying and pushing their scant belongings in small carts. Miss Alma-Tadema gives a graphic picture of this wholesale desolation: “Industry is at a stand- still; millions’ are out of work; -the meadows and arable lands are fur- rowed by deep trenches, riddled with shellholes; the sambe tracts “have been swept over and over by immense battle waves; nothing remains. The barns and ricks are burned; the horses and cattle; all stolen or slain: ruin everywhere. The women and children have been driven out into the open, they ' cower in the woods; the manse, the manor house, the old castle in the park, all are destroved: there is no, one to help, there is nowhere to fly | | the prominent Engish painter,~Robert | leted by 1he Censor.” to, nothing to do but to hide in ruins in woods or in hollows, gnawing roots and the bark of trees, while the child- ren shiver and starve to death.” Best Informed 'Authority. And this is from one of the best- informed Polish authorities . in Eng- land, the energetic young woman of- ficial of the Polish committee, the bearer of ene - of England’'s great names, and the center into which pours all this mass of information’ concerning the colossal tragedy ot Poland. There are many other enthusiastic Polish workers here, notably Mme. | Syanislawa Bevan, the Polish wife »f | Bevan, who is chairman of the com- mittee looking after Polish refugees coming Lo London. Mme. Bevan, hern in Poland, has sacrificed her jewels | to aid in caring for her countrymen. One of the rings she gave for the cause is significent of the = burning ! hope under-lying the Polish cause. 1% | is an old famiy heir-loom, bearing ' date just after Poland was torn into | three parts and _passed around tu | Austria, Prussia, and Russia. What appears (o he a seal on top is .in truth a minature coffin, emblamatic of Poland’s burial. But when a tidy . spring is touched, the &n opens and a Polish knight in the full regalia of old Poland, rises with sword aloft from his tomb in which Pogland has slept since she was dismembéred. The Anglo-Russian entente creatas i many. political obstacles to getting de- tails of conditions in the Eastern field for puplication, and even in telling the truth. For example, Cardinal Bourne, archbishop of Westminister, made a remarkable address recently to a gathering of Poles and Poligh adherents. It was presumed thet such an address would be printed in all its details, but when the téxt ap- peared in the “Universe” it was wiih frequent paranthetical phrages “De- ‘Even one of the appeals for relief of Polish vic- tims has fallen under the ban and had | had to be withdrawn. Thus England | is loyal to _her Russian ally, and the ! political status of Polind is necessarily viewed in London from the Anglo- Russian viewpoint. But the actuali- | ties of the ‘Polish people, the hav and distress among them, stand out in startling magnitude notwithstand- , ing the veil which is kept sp tightly | drawn over the political status, | i | ! AUTO DAMAGED, An auto bearing C 28892, the registration was damaged ye: terday afternoon, when the driver de- | liberately crashed into a tree _pn | Broad street to avoid hitting a woman who had become confused at the ap- l proach of the machine, and the striking of her seemed inevitahle. A Foy-who was riding in the car sus- tained a cut on his hand from broken glass. 1 number : quotes from ihe president’s | France. *sical PROTEST U, S. NOTE. German-Americans Send Resolution to Wilson. Utica, N. Y.. July 26.—The Ger- man-American Alliance of New York state, in convention here, announced yesterday the sdoption of a resolution a copy of which was sent to President Wilson, which urges ‘“peace loving people,” and ‘‘especially Americans of German origin” to protest against any attempt to draw this country in- to the European war.” The preamble of the resolution latest note to Germany, which it condemns and calls an ultimatum, ABOARD TORPEDOED SHIP, New York, July 26.—Three Ameri- can-seamen from the Russian steamer Leo which was torpedoed by a Ger- man submarine, arrived here last night on the American Line steam- ship Philadelphia from Liverpool. They were Harry Clark of Seattie, ‘Wash,, Harry Whitney of Camden, N. 1 J., and Walter Emery of Swan Quar- ter. N. C. The Philadelphia brought 517 passengers, incuding E. J. Ber- wind, coal operator of this city, and Misg, Edith Deacon of Boston, who has' been a nurse in the American ambulance hospital at Neuilly, s BLAMES INSPECTION BUREAU. Chicago, July 26.—“A considerable portion of the blame for the Eastland disagter rests upon the United States ingpegtion bureau,” said MacLay Hoyne, state’s attorney in a statement last night regarding his investigation of the wreck. “If the inspectors had done their duty the accident could not hwo ”currea. We know the ship was copsidered unsafe by them be- cnuse’I have copies cf letters sent to ‘Washington, which predicted yester- day’s occurrence. I may introduce these letters at the inquest.” PALMER FOR COUNSELOR, Cornish, N. H., July 26.—The ap- pointment of ex-Representative A. AMitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania as counselor of the state department is expected within a day or two. He understood to be President’s Wison's most probable selection for the office. TWO PERSONS KILLED, South Paris, Me., July 26.—Mrs. John Everett of this village and her voung daughter, Ivy, were instantly kjlled vesterday, when an automobile H in which they were riding was struc L )y a Grand Trunk express t ('0\\.("] | 7 PMYN‘!(‘AI: INSTRUCTOR, l Durham, N. H, July 26.—The ap- | pointment of W. H. Cowell as phy- | instructor at the New Hamp- College, was announced today. | will _have charge of athletics at lege. l shire He the desirable. All the wanted summer coals are seen in this wtore | models, colors and materials at very reasonable prices. Women's dresses special at $3.95. Children’s at reduced prices. Sage-Allen & \ HARTFORD Why Bake These Warm D Let “Hoffmann’s” Do lt FOR THIS PARKERHOUSE ROLLS, per doz ....... MADAM:— The bread required for your table is of great your whole family. All the bread baked by made from the best materials obtainable, in clean, roundings. Ask your Grocer. WILSON EXPRESSES [ GRIEF FOR TRAGEDY| President Orders Gomplete Probe of Chicago Disaster Chicago, July 26.—Acting Mayor Moorhouse of Chicago yesterday re- cefved the following telegram from I'resident Woodrow Wilson: “Windsor, Vt., July 25, 1915, Hon. William Hale Thompson, Mayor, Chicago, Til. “I am!sure I speak the universal feeling of the people of the country in expressing my, profound sympathy and sorrow in theé presence of the great disaster which saddened so many homes.” Cablegram From Iipton. A cabiegram was eceived from Sir Thomas Lipton of London, England, which :eads as follows: “I am greatly shocked to ses hy the day’s has fallen on your city. My heartfelt sympathy goes out to those who hlnl H los*. their dear ones.. Tf you siart relie? fund put me down for $1.600." A ressage of condolence from the organization of the General Slocum Survivors of New York slso was re- celved. Orders Complete Corunigh, N. H,, July estigation. 26.—President Wilson yesterday ordered (hat a com- | plete investigation be made by the de- partment of commerce into the sink- ing of the excursion steamer Eastiund, Acting Secretary Sweet of ment sent him word that the oa newspapers the catastrophe that | ing be left w bility. 'nn ,-u-nt te e-:'oumll jand sorrow I connnm&- 1 orror the departs b nnd uthou‘h he 3 open as to "‘ IPOMNG for the 16 bo dono to pmd disaster. BOY IS Samuel Chasen o avenue, was sl day morning, longing to El Vacked into the street. Dr, Jose moned to attend Ch Juries were of & wheels of the way jo ] of the disaster would be looked hh. and the president directed m:'m