April 24.
Though little enough news manages to leak out of Unhappy Poland, chiefly because the Naols are probably ashamed of what they are doing, it is possible from statements made ty leaders of the Reich themselves to obtain some fair idea of the crime which is being perpetrated against this victim of German degression. In a recent article in the "Ber-finer Bérsenzeitung," written by a high ficial of the German Ministry of Propaganda, there was a revelation of German plans with regard to Poland. The Reich, {cording to this authority, has no intention whatever of tolerating the existence of even the smallest Polish State: the Polish popula. von of Pomorze, Poonan, and Silesia, which have been incorporated in the outright, is to be expelled, and settled on Polish tarifory administered by Governor-General Frank, and commonly spoken of by the Germans: as the "remainder area." So far the Germans have incorporated 39,000 {quare miles of territory inhabited by 9,000,- it0 people, of whom only 460,000 were Ger~ nan, The foregoing area includes not only ihe above-mentioned provinces, but also con~ siderable areas which were never before part Germany. Throughout the whole area, 1 which has thus been incorporated, the Poles represent from 92 to 97 per cent, of the 1 population. The "remainder area" "consist ing of 30,000 square miles includes 8,000 square miles which have been reserved for ihe Jews around Lublin, so that the Polish reservation into which from eighteen to \wenty millions of people are to be squeezed covers no more than 28,000 square miles, less in area than Latvia with a population of 000,000, Tt would be' superfluous to point ut the utter absurdity of the scheme if it were not for the fact that its successful operation and the driving of the Poles from (cit ancestral homeland is a crime which has. rever before been recorded in the history of the world, Over 100,000 Poles expelled from Gdynia and Orlowo are slowly dying in the gion of Kielce and Radom, owing to lack food and clothing, and yet countless mins are carrying tens of thousands of Poles fen Poznan, Bydgoszcz and other Polish ies into the "remainder area" or taking tem into Germany to put them to forced These homeless people of Poland are abandoned anywhere, doomed to misery or coth from starvation and cold. Either that, they are reduced to a hideous helotry which only the perverted imagination of: the Nazi leaders could possibly devise. Into the meos which are thus being cleared of the Poles are being dumped those Germans who fave been repatriated from the Baltic States, from the Alto Adige (South Tyrol), Russia, Rumania, Hungary, and Yugoslavia The Reich to which they' are going is the Poland which has temporarily been occupied ty the German troops, And what are the Poles to do about it? The German answer fas already been given: The Vistula is ig enough," suggesting that they can either frown or starve. Is it any wonder that Mr. Winston Churchill should have coined his now famous phrase of the British and French armies cleansing the Viking soil of Norway of the "filthy pollution of the Nazis?" The picture of millions of Poles jammed into a space which economically an never support them, there to be wiped at by slow starvation, or at any rate re-iced to numbers which the sea in which toy are imprisoned can support, must be held before the world as a threat of what happen to other nations should Germany win this war, The Allies full well alle what awaits them should the: arms ai, "The peace imposed in the last war pon Rumania, which was described as thing to what would be meted out to Briand France had Germany succeeded, as a foretaste of what was to be expected is but a slight indication of what Nould occur in the event of Germany emerg-the victor from this present struggle. That is an event which the Allies are deter-shall never occur, and what is"hap-ning in Poland, on the confession of Ger-fan leaders themselves is sufficient to con-that determination, 1s It any wonder the Vatican should have sought to voice protest at what is going on by means of
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