Show APPALLING RUIN SWEEPS POLAND Disease and Starvation I Widespread Red Cross Board Finds Washington April 2 Z Widespread 2 suffering and distress throughout eastern eastern east east- ern rn and anti southeastern Poland are described de- de de described e- e scribed In a cablegram from Warsaw received today by hr the American Iced Hell Cross headquarters s hero here from a Red lied I Cross mission which had hat just returned front from an el eight ht day tour o of Inspection during which it had covered cO 1500 tiles miles and distributed food clothing and ancl medIcines medicines med med- in twenty cities and numerous villages Tho rho members of ot mission wore were said to have t found round the population practically without an any of the tho necessities of life Ufa and Ind disease prevalent pro everywhere Thousands were sick and dying from epidemics of or typhus small pox and trachoma while whole towns were reported re reported re- re ported to tn have havo been practically out b by the tho diseases wiped In many of oC the Isolated villages es starving star peasants lined the roadside I and begged for tor and food the cablegram ram stated For w weeks I thc ing Ing- f they had been JIIng living liv JI liv oil mm an nil Imitation bread made from potato peelings dIrt dirty ryo rye and the bark barIc of trees but when the tho n Red lied tl Cross arrived ar ar- ar rived tho the supply SUII l of or these Ingredients had been tion Hon Tho rho greatest suffering and destitution way was encountered In Pins situated in tho lie unhealthy Pripet t marshes two miles cast of ot Warsaw In four years the population population of or has heel been reduced from front to and tho the Ing latter are arc down with typhus lackIng lack lack- lacking medical attendance and proper nourishing cure Disease ant and hUn hunger cr Were wore found in overt every house visited An inspection of or the orphan asylum aRlum disclosed dis lIs- lIs closed sixty children afflicted typhus with The direct misery was located in a little village e In the tho Kowel district about eight Ight miles behind the Polish lines Practically er c every 1 one one- no of or the persons remaining of oC the original population pop pop- o of 1000 was dying of or starvation a tion or disease As the members of the mission wore were ies tos the first Americans seen Been In those tholo elt- elt cit dt- and villages since the beginning of ot the war they wore were re bet besieged ged h. h by tho the natives for or new or 01 relatives In tho the news United State Stat the rite ca cablegram stated The workers offered to forward letters to th the United d States and about one onD thousand were hero presented |