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Show oo BUILDING ON DESTROYED N HOMES. Belgium and northern Franco are said to be so devasted as to be heart breaking. Wo of the allied cause have had a comparatively close view of the western front and have kept fairly well Informed on the work, of tho Hun incendiary, but we doubt that even Belgium has suffered as has Poland. Much of what has occurred in that region will not bo known In all Its jawfujness until after peace, but enough filters through the German barriors to give an inkling of the horrors hor-rors of Poland. Parts of Poland, were fought over four times as the armies advanced and retreated, and each time the torch was applied. How the people survived, or surviving had the heart to again labor to restoro thjilr homes is inexcusable. Today tho inhabitants aro struggling to rebuild- We are Informed by the ! leaders of tho Poles In this country that becouso of tho German practice of seizing all materials for German use, the work has had to be carried on almost surreptitiously. It Is naturally of a temporary nature; first because of the lack of supplies and money, and again because the need of shelters is so pressing and Immediate". The actual rebuilding will of necessity have to bo an after-the-war problem, becauso tho devastation in Poland has : been so widespread and complete. Hundreds of villages have been actually act-ually reduced to heaps of clndors and tho fields have been made sterile, and even the trees, not only along tho highways, but In larger forest traces, have been cut to tho stumps. Public buildings, bridges, and railways rail-ways have been destroyed, and In that portion of tho kingdom adjoining Po land, the railroads have been remade to link with the German system, while the rolling stock has been either confiscated or worn to such a condition as to bo useless as an economic econo-mic Instrument in the future. |