WHERE POLAND STANDS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 54, 2 November 1915, Page 4

WHERE POLAND STANDS.

Prince Leopold’s anxiety to persnade the capital of Russian Poland to tall in love with German methods of administration i s quite intelligible, says November “Life.” Poland, through all its fragments—Austrian, j German, and Russian—somehow keep its unity of national sentiment, and that sentiment is and not pro-German. In the “Contemporary,” Princess Bariatinsky says that “the Polish nation has whole-heartedly taken up arms with, Russia,, a fact ol tremendous importance in the history of both of them, and for the danse ol the Allies. Independent Polish legions have been formed, oflicered bv Poles, with Polish batteries of artillery. They* fight side by side with the Russian troops, and are considered among our best lighters Polish women gp' 'into the most advanced trenches and risk their lives to ministor to the Russian soldiers food, water and other comforts. Poland has learned to love Russia, and Russia has given proof of her respect lor Poland’s autonomous rights.” One of the ablest of the younger Polish writers, Dr. Ludwig Ehrlich, says that “Germany is the worst enemy of Poland.!’ “Jn Germany,” says Princess Bariatinsky, “the notorious Expropriation Law was passed which the German Government to I buy at a ,price fixed by, itself the land of any Polish proprietor. This has been .worked to compass the ruin of the Polish landlords and to fill the land with German colonists. No wonclei that the Poles, who feel a fundamental unity among themselves in all thrye parts of Poland—Russian, Austrian, and German—hate the German yoke with its hard, arrogant persistence, and shrink with horror from a Germanised future; no wonder they turn to Russia with hope.”