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Show GERMANS ROLE WITH IRON ROD AT WARSAW 1 Many Prominent Citizens Arrested; Articles of Cotton Cot-ton and Wool Taken. PETROGRAD. Sept. S. 12 noon, via Ivondon. 3:45 p. m. A prominent Polish lawyer, who made his escape from Warsaw War-saw after its capture by the Germans, made the following- statement today: Two days after t he Germans entered en-tered the city more than 400 of the most prominent cfttseDS who remained, were arrested without warning or interrogation in-terrogation and sent to Germany. About TOO families weie deprived o? their heads and of knowledge of their whereabouts. Arrests continued daily. The only known reason was that the names of the victims appeared on a Ust compiled com-piled by Informers and sent to Germany Ger-many months ago. The Germans displayed their usual thoroughness. Within a few days after they entered the city three temporary hr idges were thrown across the Vistula in plac of the structures blown up by the Russians. Tho electric, pas and water plants were restored and there was early evidence of Industrial activity. A house-to-house search was made and every copper vessel was confiscated. Metal was stripped from any places In which- it had been left. Articles of cotton and wool were gathered si nearly from houses and shops. Hundreds of men who previously had worked in factories were given the choice of Internment In Germany or labor for wages at the Krupp works. Everv day sees the departure of men who prefer forced labor to compulsory Idleness in Germany or work in trent-hes- Prince ljuhoniirsky. one of Warsaw's War-saw's energetic puMlc men, accepted the poet as temporary president of the civc and central committees under un-der the German military governor. He made it clear that he was a loyal Russian. |