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Show REDS SZ GERMANS AS HOSTAGES AND THREATEN GENERAL MASSACRE POLES IE ANGERED ' II THE TEUTONS Germany Becomes Involved In-volved in Mass of Difficulties Dif-ficulties and May Lose All the Large Benefits She Prepared to Realize Re-alize From Peace Pact With the Ukraine. WARSAW SCENE OF EXCITEMENT Commissioners of the Central Powers Leave Petrograd and Military Mili-tary Operations May Be Resumed Against Russians. LONDON". Feb, 1 6. A general strike in Warsaw is reported by Ileuter's Amsterdam correspondent. Tho German papers print only brief and unsatisfactory dispatches regarding the situation there. AMSTKKPAM, Keb. lb The Hol-sheviki Hol-sheviki are making wholesale arrests of Hermans iu Kuia and holding them as hoMaes, according to a Ki-a dis patch received bv way of lierliu. Three ; huudrevl Hermans and many pro Her 'man Km houiaus at I Kir pat have been : arrested and transferred to Kronstudt. All tho ood iu the Poipat district has been confiscated, and it is almost impossible im-possible to feed tho Hernial! women and children. The lives of those arrested, as well as tier ma us and Herman supporter- who ha e not vet been arrest ed, are hourlv in i'.reat danger, adds the dispatch, dis-patch, a l lie llolsheviki threaten wholesale but c her v. The llolshev ik i have officially declared the Ualtic no bilit v out law s. Tolami in Tumult. The I. oka I An.-eii;er (iVrliiO s: there i reat evciteiueut at Warsaw . Hracow and l.ember as a result of the I'kraine treats. The Warsaw news papers a re appea r i ni; with black bor ders. Soldiers, mounted and ou foot, are patrolling the streets to prevent demonstrations. The director of political po-litical affaiis. Hount K'ost orovski, ha, resigned. At Hr.icow- the papers appeal to Kebsli parties to declare a one dav er iral strilvc. enera! strike lias been called at I. embers for Motidav, when wo:k will be suspended in all the Polish facti'nes, shops and mernuietu o ft' ices and the sc heoU will be c losed. (aMtuaus Aid I kraino. Herman forces are aire:'. do bein cim ceutrated in I'kiaiue to attack t bo iloUheviki. accorditii: to a UcrWti di. pa t eh to the T:.i "i, and dec la ra lion, look in.; to the active prosecution of the war against the Indshes iki iu north Ku-ia aUo will I'e made at IvmIiu :e-. t w eeU. The Herman aut hen: se. are iiiuuui re 4. 1 1 i 1 n :; t ! e tare of l - er ma n prison erv in no it ii Ku-M.t, u hotu t ho lloishc iki are holdiii as he:ai;cs mid who. IVriui iU.patciies sav, mav be killed if the rol-he i'.v i are dr i en tv des perat i ou. H erma uv lias n ! read v ser ed not ice on t h HoUhev. 1 aut horit tes ti-.i; i;e will enforce reprisals if the Hc'iiian p'--;,'Uen are harmed. Hou..t H.-enun. the Austro Hun ourian t orv'i n minister, 'u.! s not 1 1' ted 1 lerltu that Austrian t roo: mut not be used against Kussta to support (Continued ou Two.) POLES ARE BED mm TEUTONS (Continued from Page One.) policy which Austria has not approved, hut. only for purposes of self-defense against marauding bands. GERMANY APT TO LOSE BENEFITS OF RUSSIAN PEACE Germany has suddenly found herself Involved In-volved in a maze of difficulties on the f eastern front and is in danger of losing all the large benefits she was calmly pre- I paring to realize from her peace with the Fkraine and the Bolshevik withdrawal of Russia from the war. Poland, that, land which so frequently :n the course of history has proved a thorn in the side of military conquerors, ;s threatening to constitute herself the rock on which the German hope of peace aii'.i gainful expansion in the east may l.o shattered. Embittered by the tearing uff of a strip of their territory to be given the Ukraine for breaking away from the Moishevikl and signing a peace with the entral powers, the Poles are in what appears to be virtually a state of revolt. i Even the very weapon which Germany - I ami Austria were at such pains to forge :,; the hope of deriving military benefit ' he Polish army bids fair to be turned .'gainst them. Dismay and Alarm. Reports in the German newspapers, -vliich express dismay and alarm over the Polish situation, indicate that the Polish ; ! legions, now an effective military force, I are on the side of the prevalent Polish ' .sentiment of hit tern ess against the cen- j ; ral rowers. The situation has grown so serious that the military are patrolling 1 . :.e streets in Warsaw. J Austria-Hungary is particularly in- ' vol veri in the difiiculties because of the ; 'rominent part which it is expected she ould play in the future government of 'oiand. The Polish elements and those Sympathizing with them in the dual monarchy mon-archy are up in arms over the situation ;t ml further Internal troubles are threat- Attack Probable. Turning to the north, it ah eady has : fi-n reported that Germany purposes retiming re-timing military operations against northern north-ern Russia, and this report gains color ;iv the announcement that the commissions commis-sions representing the central powers at I'eirocrad have left the Russian capital and passed within the German military hr.es. The probable German purpose to attack the Bolshevikl is also indicated in a Vienna dispatch declaring that if Germany derided to resume military op- t rations against Russia, "the attitude of siria" would not be influenced thereby. This on Id seem to mean that A u stria ' intends to leave Germany to fiht the bat- le alone in nortn Russia. Whether she j r.opes to keep up connections with the . 'etrograd government meanwhile is not ! Iear. but a Sofia dispatch declares that tJnlzaria is doing that very thing, having 'resumed diplomatic relations with Russia." Rus-sia." However, all the central powers are hi agreement over the situation, it is declared. |
