Show VOLUNTEER i L DESCRIBES RED REDI I i ACTIVITIES ACTIVITIES' Untutored Warrior Sends Send I Narrative of What He HeI Saw at Front FrontI I I I Editors Editor's Vote Note The The letter Is IsI I given textually as received from Warsaw allI as all I the S simple but graphic c report P 7 of an American Amer Arner- t tand ican aen eje vl visit I to the battle front and ami his hi as to extreme cruelties Against p I lIsh Ish troops The letter Is panted by a number of or photographs photographs' show chow showIng showIng Ing InC the Polish victim of or these atrocities The letter Is written on the letterhead of the Polish Mechanics Company Inc havIng havIng hayIng hav hay Ing branches branchu In New Y Turk rk Chicago and De Do- troll trott and was lc by the president of ot that com company pan X WARSAW Sept 23 py Mail We Mail We left good United States under the Impression impression impression im Im- im- im that most that has been written written written writ writ- ten about bolsheviks was full of lies Stories of Polish soldiers describing cases cas ases of the most refined cruelties I iced diced upon captured Polish Polish- commis- commis i and noncommissioned officers i and soldiers could not change our point I lof of view I On August 25 w we had an an to be convinced ed by bt seeing and andI I touching the deeds of ot red knights j Our Ford truck l loaded with bread I I underwear sweets cigarettes and soap soapS left Warsaw with the de decision tor each I the fighting columns We Ve passed passed through and I and stopped in where a crowd I lof of women surround policemen and spy disguised as a woman In the middle I of market we found grave grav e of bolshevik chief who captured but but- was Killel at the end of the battle MASS MASSACRE CRE ALLEGED Next day we approached the battle line in We met the first killed man by the road a red army soldier sol aol dier lying on his b back ck with eyes looking lookIng looking look look- sOl sOl-I ing towards Warsaw He wore a coat of a Polish soldier but was robbed of ot everything else by his own comrades S A few yards further we found four tour Polish soldiers s c captured by the red army undressed and then murdered In Inthe Inthe inthe the most beastly manner manner One thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand Polish Infantrymen were fighting for fourteen hours Russians When finally the Polish Polish line line was broken Russians Russians Rus Rus- began beS-an to yell Comrades top stop fighting you are surrounded A group of ot forty five Polish soldiers were vere captured captured captured cap cap- undressed and every one was m murdered In the most horrible way with sabers In w met a group of bolshevik bolshevik bolshevik bol bol- prisoners 15 per nt of them theta were barefooted poorly dressed many of or them In Iff polish uniforms and sick of fighting Every Everyone one of them claimed I that he was forced to fight by communIsts communists J and th there re was one among them who brought with him thirty Polish S prisoners t Large groups of Russians usually commanded by commissaries fight very well but small bands and single sOldiers sol aol diers throw their arms and surrender They were brought into Poland under promises that there will be universal uprising of workers and peasants and easy capture of Warsaw Bolshevik commanders promised their men seven days of freedom in Warsow so that everybody would have a chance to rob lob and plunder unlimited treasures stored in the Polish capital The attack upon Warsaw cost the bolsheviks men In killed and wounded captured disarmed disarmed dis dis- dis I armed by Prussians The war is not noto o aver vel ver The Siberian army was rushed I against the tired but enthusiastic and andI victorious Polish legions and another I supreme effort of the heroic nation will willbe willbe be needed to protect democracy and I I I liberty Polish citizens condemned the Jewish I II attitude but have shown no desire to todo todo I do them any harm From our point of I view the tre population and the government govern govern- I I ment mont are too careless and too lenient with criminals acting against the government government gov gov- and country which gave them gOV 1 shelter and unlimited privileges |