TERRIBLE SIGHT

Franklin Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 3, 11 January 1943, Page 3

TERRIBLE SIGHT

STARVED POLES IN MIDDLE EAST •\\T have Pole's scattered throughon' !!w Middle Past. In add to the hotch-potch of nations here." stales Mms Betty horiiner Chrislcliurch in ! I'd !I■ r • writ It'll last <lc I nlmr In her parents, frnm Basra. "Some of you may not know wind is happening- in Ihis part of the world." she said. "When Bussia invaded Poland, about two million Poles were taken to the t'.S.S.H. as prisoners. out the women and children jus! went along with Hie men. Fund is prefly short in parts of Bussia for nmi-workers. so these people were not being properly fed. Now limy ire being released under international mam men!, and are being evacuated • roio Bussia via Teheran. The Bril.ll r.overnment rushed military hospitals there to cope with the sickness. "Hefty dysentery and malnutrition, and many of the sisters now in the. Basf-a ;re a have had Ihcir turn at nursing. Hie Poles. “Look Like Tadpoles”

••The able-bodied men and women have ’neon mobilised in Itie Polish arniv. and are mostly training in Palestine. The rest have been gradually moved out of Persia to India and parts of Africa, where those who care about the survival of the Polish nation are hoping that the children rnay have enough food to make them grow up. Most of them look, at the moment, like tadpoles ... a terrible siirh! to our eyes.”