square A Hungry, Stricken Warsaw Is Pictured Refugees in France Receive News From Homeland; Polish Spirit Is Quelled But Will Never Die, Reports Indicate A graphle description of conditions In Warsaw, following tho German occupation, is given here by an American girl who married Polish prince. It Is based on authoritative information received from Polish refugees arriving In France and from official sources. Princess Sapicha was Virginia Peterson, a Vassar graduate, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Peterson of New York. She and Trlnce Sapieha were in Poland at the outbreak of the war and escaped through Rumania and Hungary to France. By PRINCESS PAUL SAPIEHA (Released by North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc ) PARIS, Dec. 7. Since the inhabitants of Warsaw hoisted the white flag over the ruins of their city, more than two months ago, the streets have not yet been cleaned. Rain and sleet fill thi? shellholes and cover the piles of bricks and plaster, shattered pavement, torn car-rails, and shreds of furniture with a mantle of mud, but even the autumn "downpour has not rinsed from the air the stench of the bodies which lie unburied in this debris. Along the main thoroughfares, the crossings are not to be recognized. From time to time, fragments of houses, 'giv- PEOPLES MOVE TO NEW AREAS Germany, Russia Planning Vast Exchange of Populations BERLIN, Dec. 7. (ZP) A German-Russian commission tomorrow starts the task of exchanging populations approximately 600.000 persons m all as the result of the partition of Poland by Germany and Soviet Russia. Germans estimated that about 100,000 Germans would be brought westward from regions annexed by Russia, chiefly Wolyn (Volhynia), eastern Polish province. They said possibly 500,000 Ukrain. ians and others would choose to move eastward into Russian tcrri- tnrv. t Is Big Job The job is much greater, Germans said, than that involved in calling "home to the Reich" German residents of the Baltic states. After Poland's partition Germany summoned the Baltic Germans home. From Estonia 15,000 already (Continued to Page 2, Column 8) ing in to the wind, iau over. A meager horse, picking his way along the street, staggers and falls. People gather around him. Tensely, they push and pull to get the animal to his feet, but he cannot stand because he is dead. An Old Slogan No stores are open, so everyone hawks his wares outdoors. Here stands a line of women waiting for bread. There stands another line waiting for soup from the German relief kitchen. But before the soup is handed out. each person must re- i peat aloud Pilsudski's old slogan: j .We poes are strong, united, and prepared." Many turn away with empty stomachs. For these relief kitchens, the Germans sent a bill to the municipal authorities for several million zloties (par for the zloty is 18.99 cents.) Besides the German cars which bump over the streets at reckless speed, there are two bus lines now functioning, but these do not stop from end to end of the city. No trams run, because the cars were broken up and used for barricades during the siege. Since nothing Is left of the Central railroad station, the few trains running leave from a station far on the outskirts, at uncertain hours. City of Ruins The ordinary means of communication, such as telephone and post, (Continued to Page 2, Column 1) k
