ENSLAVED POLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 35, 9 February 1917, Page 3

ENSLAVED POLAND.

UNDER GERMANY'S HEEL. KULTUR IN EXCELSIS. LONDON, February 1. The "Telegraf," Amsterdam, prints an interview with a well-to-do Pole living at Warsaw, who has arrived in Holland, and who tells how 100,000 Poles have been condemned to hard labour without trial. "Any Poles refusing to work for the military authorities," said the man from Warsaw, " are punished severely. The poorer Poles have begun to kill dogs for food. "Courts of blood perform their work without cessation, and several innocent people have been shot at Pilwaa. Firing parties are always at work. Cordons of troops one night surrounded the working-class quarter of Warsaw with loaded rifles, and ordered everyone into the open. It was a tragic scene. The soldiers chose the men and women they thought suitable, separating brothers from sisters and mothers . from children, and compelling those good for slavery to leave immediately. "The young women and girls were herded with prostitutes, the most beautiful women being reserved for the officers. During the deportations the Poles underwent borrible sufferings. Nevertheless the Poles continue to mock the enemy, whom they detest. To the air of ' Deutschland über Alles" they sing in Polish, 'Germany, Germany, Ferocious Beast.' The Germans, hearing the air without understanding the words, feel flattered, and approve of the sinking."