Bucharest, Sept. 20. POLAND'S army of refugees—the remains of what titree days ago was a real Army, Foreign Office, Chancellery and civil ministries—is scattered today along more than 200 miles of dusty road, disorganized and discouraged, en route to internment or to cities of refuge somewhere in exile. followed the refugee road yesterday from Cernauti 350 miles to Bucharest which in present conditions takes eighteen: hours even in a high-powered car with special privileges.
One embassy car took 31 hours to make the same trip.
From Cernauti the stream of refugees is endless, Near the capital it trickles off to a few officials and other favoured people who got permits to come as far as Bucharest. But everywhere along the road the urge is to keep moving somehow to the east and south away from the border, which is now partly in German and Russian hands, Usually the shopkeepers took the None of the refugees knows what is going on in his native land today. zolty without Knowing what they They do not know whether Warsaw could get for them today at the Bank, for everywhere in Rumania, fs stil in Polish, hands. They do the refugees were given a warm wel know that it makes little difference come. Everywhere crowds gathered Because the new two-way partition around the new arrivals and shouted of Poland is a fact and the puppet "Long Live Poland!" They asked state, protectorate or German state which will arise there has no place for them.
'The entire Polish Cabinet, with their families, are understood' to be on Rumanian' sell now. Thus far 00 persons, including the Foreign Mini-Ster, Col, Josef Beck, and the War Minister," have arrived at Slanic Moldova, a little mountain town on the Rumanian frontier. questions, offered help and tried to make themselves understood in the many languages of eastern Europe.
Few of the Poles responded, however. A few soldiers chatted with the village girls. Most of them, however, sat alone at table or stood little groups in the streets, prefer. ring to stay by themselves and not alle about the last two weeks.
Wigh OMicials in Rumania, The Rumanian Government has placed the local Hotel Racovitza at the disposal of prominent refugees, Many of the civilian refugees 1 Interviewed yesterday were resentful at the Polish rout. Many of them fare resentful against the Polish Government, contending that the Polish 'Army was capable of prolonged defence against Germany's tanks, artil~ Tery and planes which have' given them no rest since September 1.
The refugees appear to beii that their Government—decal them and most believe that Britain and France et Poland down in not immediately relieving the pressure against Poland by attacking on the Western Front, They are resentful that British and Branch planes have not bombed German cities in retaliation for the bombing of Polish cities and towns and the machine-gunning of Polish civilians by German planes, But for the most part, the refugees say little, Few have plans for new lives. A few, like the thousand air force mon now across the border, would like to fight in France, Most, however, frankly have no plans Jock fatatistically toward the future.
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