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Show )! POLES DECEIVED : BY WAR STORIES a" , Salt Lake, Oct G. "The people of I . Poland believe that the Germans and ' Austrlans have already taken Paris; J ; that within a short time the German ; empire will embrace all Europe, and ; that their sacrifices for the war will be rewarded by the granting of big : farms to each of them," declared Mrs. Otton Nowoslelski, who reached Salt ; Lake yesterday from Lomberg, where she has been a virtual prisoner for 9 more than two years, f It was two months before the war In Europe started that Mrs. Nowoslelski Nowoslel-ski left New York for a visit with her ; parents in the Polish capital. After the visit she was to have joined her husband in Berlin, where he was to i ' appear at the "Wintergarten in a series i of his athletic feats. With her on the journey she took her little son, :: then 2 years of age, and it was ' through the boy that she was enabled to return to the United States and to her husband, one of the Arco brothers '; on the Orpheum programme this week. Arco is the name which the husband ' chose for his stage career. ; Mrs. Nowoslelski declared that words cannot express conaiuuut. m I Poland. Thousands are starving, she said, and conditions, while not bo bad In Lemberg proper, beggared descrip-S descrip-S . tlon in the smaller sections of that vicinity. The greater part of the peo- I cannot read, she declared, and are : told dally by the officers of the Aus-i Aus-i trian forces now holding the city that - : certain victory for the Teutonic arms is near. This, she said, has been done in order to keep up the courage of ; the people, which is blown to tever r heat whenever it shows a bit of decline de-cline by news of some mythical battle bat-tle in which the allies are defeated. : Onlv cripples and the very aged form the" male population of the city, she said, excepting th'e garrison of soldiers sol-diers on duty there. Mrs. Nowoslelski obtilncd her passports pass-ports from Lemberg through the efforts ef-forts of her husband, who, having taken tak-en out his first naturalization papers, laid his case before the state department depart-ment on the plea that his son was American born and entitled to safe i passage from the beleaguered city. During her stay In Lemberg her husband, hus-band, through various sources, sent, Tier $15000, but only $300 of this money mon-ey ever reached her. Two days before be-fore her arrival In this country he received a letter from her written last March, but which has been held by the censors for many weeks. In leaving leav-ing Poland Mrs. Nowoslelski traveled first to Leipzig, then to Vienna and to Rotterdam, where she secured passage for New York. |