POLAND.
A REGIME OF MISERY. DEPORTATION HORRORS. HARROWING SCENES. Times Service. Received Jan. 31, 8.53 p.m. London, Jan. -30. • All tiie industries in Poland are dead, the factories being closed nnd (lisjvurthd, nnd the machinery sent to Hermany. All the church bells have gone. resides daily shootings, there are constant imprisonments for the smallest offtnees. Harrowing scenes are witnessed in connection with the deportations. Nightly cordon* of armed troops tur-l-ciind the workers' quarters at Warsaw, an I the people are forced to stand herded in the streets while the officers select the most suitable, separating fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers and children 'they are compelled to stand' the whole r.'ghl in the bitter winter weather till they are herded in cattle truck and sent to Germany. Tho likeliest men are offered reiease if Uiey enlist in the PolUh Legion, but only a few respond. An eyewitness says that a hundred thousand from Warsaw alone have b'lon s'nt into slavery. A regime of misery exi.sts in Poland which no civilised pioplc would dare impose on the worst ci Iminals.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1917, Page 5
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