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Show THOUSANDS QUIT WORK. Strikes in Hussion Poland Are Still Spreading. BERLIN, Feb. 4. The Lokal An.clger's Kattowjtz, Prussia, correspondent says tho advent of refugees from Russian Poland Po-land Is assuming largo dimensions, and that every Incoming train Is crowded, mostly with women and children. All Gorman towns near tho frontier aro filled with refugees. Tho strikes In Russian Poland, tho correspondent cor-respondent says, aro still spreading, affecting af-fecting tho entire Industrial region from Sosnovlc to Granlca on tho Austrian frontier. fron-tier. Polish newspapers estimate tho total number of strikers at 400,000. Tho Lokal Anzelger's Warsaw correspondent corres-pondent says: "At Lodz today, during tho funoml of fifteen victims of the recent troubles, n fight between workmen nnd tho military broke out. two of the latter being killed and fifteen wounded." Serious labor troubles ore announced from Slelce, Russian Poland, and Lublin, sixty miles southeast of Warsaw. |