Seven hostile armies went through Poland during the Great War. and when that war was over the Poles had a threeyear war with the Russian Bolsheviks. When the Russians were finally driven out of Poland they destroyed every buildingI mean that literally. because it was done deliberatelytook away the flocks and herds. and carried three and a half million persons into captivity. Under the treaty of peace between Russia and Poland those refugees are to be brought back through seven points. The chief one is Baranowice. a place on the old line of railroad between Moscow and Warsaw. almost up to Moscow. in what was the heart of old Russia. It was through this point that last year and the year before a million refugees came back. Baranowice was a great city before the World War. but now it is utterly destroyed. Nothing remains there but a few wooden shacks surrounded by barbed wire. It is much like a prison camp oil the western front. It is to such a desolate and Godforsaken place that the Polish citizens are returning. On the first trainload of refugees that I saw come across the border from Russia the morning I got to Baranowice there were 1.300. Five hundred of theni were children. I saw them have the first warm meal they had had in their lives.
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