POLAND'S FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 91, 11 January 1919, Page 7

POLAND'S FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE

PADEREWSKI'S DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! ' \ New York, January 9. . The Washington correspondent of th« New York "Times" says that the Polish Associated Press lfas announced that M.Pnderewski ■ has . gone to Poland to ' bring about co-operation between tho Prussian, Austrian, and Russian Poles, He was sent there to form, a new Gov- / eminent at Warsaw.—Aus.-N.Z. Cabls Assn, . ■ . ...- GERMAN SNIPERS FIRE ON HOTEL. ■ (Rec. January 10, 11.45 p.m.) - Amsterdam, January 4. After M. Paderewski and' Colonel Waile (British Army) arrived _ at Posen' . the Germans continuously sniped their rooms. , Children . marching in procession past their hotel cried "Long liva England!" A Gorman jnaohine-gun. fired, killing several children.- Tha Poles defended tho hotel for two days until the Poles captured the city.—Aus.* VN.Z. Cable Aesn v - AWFUL BOLSHEVIK ATROCITIES ._. POLISH LANDLORD' TORTURED. London, January 8. • Mr." Jeffries,, the • war - correspondent* describes awful Bolshevik atrocities, reviving the most fiendish of medieval tortures. A marauding ganfe at Bodolia • 'Seized a Polish landlord and pulled his limbs apart-till his body was, ripped, < "and" the.; remains; were then hacked 'to: picces and burned. Six managers and overseers of a factory in Schienski were bound in'zero' weather, ' and water was poured over their heads'till tliey were, frozen solid. Russian'officers were torn, in pieces; some had' 1 heir bones broken, - and. others were killed by; the applica--tion of -an .electric- current—Aus.-N.Z* Cable Assn.