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Show SCOURGED BY TYPHUS Whole Towns Are Wiped Out in Poland. Pitiful Tales of Distress and Suffering Told by the Red Cross Mission. Washington. Pitiful tales of the distress dis-tress and suffering throughout eastern and southeastern Poland have been brought to Warsaw by members of the American Pod Cross mission who have just returned from an oiglit-day tour of inspection during which they covered 1.."it)l miles and distributed food, clothing and medicines in 'JO cities cit-ies and numerous villages, according to cable advices to the Kod Cross headquarters here. Everywhere they found typhus, thich had practically wiped out whole towns. Smallpox and trachoma also were prea!er.i. er-'.demic-s th; caicniug , j because sick and well are horded to-j to-j get her in many homes, j In many of the isolated villages I starving peasants lined the roadside land begged for food. For weeks they hail been living on an imitation bread made from potato poolings, dirty rye land the bark of trees, but the supply of even these ingredients had been exhausted. |