The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, JULY 10, 1916. HELP FOR POLISH WOMEN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 82, 10 July 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, JULY 10, 1916. HELP FOR POLISH WOMEN.

MA,very. ppecial appeal is being made the Plunket Society 3 jiehalf'of the .suffering women and caldron refugees into Russia from Poland, Galicia and kindred countries, gridftom 1 shottW touch the hearts of m*n> fiM^tfee 1 'countries named, who, 3!& th , e^helte^-bf ! the •iißri.ti.slii flag aii iiviilg'ln in )oul" 'm'idsl" J ThWe w tij'e ! ' , * : rii*aii3ir ; ilunds ..now fWwfott'k®WfctoaM 'willingly '•tmbsmlic. to l JKe , »e3t> bH bur means and this; fni'thbr claim'is equal 'and even'perhaps more urgent, than, some", others. It 'is - not this time for the wounded, but for help for the hundreds of thousands' of starving women and children driven from their Polish and Galician homes to take refuge in Russia. Our great. Ally is doing all possible, bub the men and women in this land who ard of kindred race to those now suffering, ought to feel the call and give from their plenty to save the women land children from the cruel fate the, brutality of Hunnish warfare hasj forced upon them. Maternity units li&vje been established in Russia for;] the; relief of refugees, and .many noble women, headed by Her Imperial iMajesty tho Empress Alexandra, archiving; their help and protection to the movement. The refugees consist of Poles, Lithuanians, Letts, and people from the Baltic Provinces crowded together and help for them must in humanity's name, be found. We shall be glad to receive and acknowledge any sums on behalf of the Plunket Society which those well-disposed may see fit to give, or gifts may be sent direct to the Plunket Society's Secretary at Stratford. >' I

WAR WITH BIG GUNS.

In tho July number of life the Verdun' Struggle is discussed at length, and it is pointed out that no such mass and weight of artillery, had evor before been concentrated on one tiny patch; of the earth's surface. On one measured patch of soil 80,000 heavy German shells fell in six hours! "The whole vicinity of Verdun," says the "Argonaut," "must be fairly well car-| pflted with iron by this time. Not less than two thousand tons of shells have been sent against the French every day since the attack began. Probably the French have not so many guns nor of such large calibre, but none the less they are of the most effective kind, while the French gunners are the best in the world." Now the Germans guns, it must be remembered, have been in action against Verdun for more than 100 days; and if this bit of American aiithmetic is accurate, then more than '200,000 tons , of German sbells. ate charged with high explosives, have already been rained on the little patch of soil which is the scene of this battle. To this, of course, most be added another 200, bOO tons of explosives flung from French guns, or 100,000 tons in all Arid amidst n tempest nf Iron hail like this, French and Germans have been

for three months busy slaying each other. The American writer goes on. to do a grim sum in proportion. .If we allow an average of one ton of metal to kill one soldier—a veiyH inadequate proportion surely this shows fight. Another critic insists that half that 400,000 human beings have already been killed or wounded in this fi.ght. Another critic insists that half a ton of high explosives ought to be sufficient to kill or disable one soldier; and on even that poor ratio the cojfi bined butchers' bill of the Verdun fight, still unfinished, approaches nearly 1,000,000. But according to the despatches from a German source to the New York World, even 'the effort of the Germans at Verdun is easily surpassed by the almost in'coneeivablo intensity of the British artillery work at the opening of the the Allies great offensive.