Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-11-17 | Page 7 | Arrested for High Treason

ARRESTED FOR I HIGHJREASON I Polish Deputy Refuses to Take j Military Oath Unless Poland Is Promised Freedom. Venice, via Paris. Nov. 17, lam. Count Alexander Skarbek, a Polish deputy, vice president of the Polish j club, and one of the most prominent members of the Polish party was ar rested at Neumarkt. Galicla. on No- vember 5. charged with high treason , Skarbek was the leader of the mili ( tant Polanders of tho East Gallclan . section and organized the Polish legion le-gion which marched out of Lemberg at the end of August. fiOOo strong. I During September the legion dia I handed at Mzana. West Galicia. ow- I ing it is charged to the action of I Sarbek In demanding that the mem- I ber3 should refuse to take the mili- j I tary oath unless it contained a clnuse : I thai the Polish legion was organised I for the purpose of fighting for the lib I arty of Poland At a meeting .of the I Kast Gallcian section of the Pollsn M I National committee, Skarbek was ee- I verely censured for this action, where- I I upon he and a number of his sym- M I pathtzora withdrew from the commit- I tee I count Skarbek was brought under military escort first to Cracow nd I tivn o Vienna. H I