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Show DESCRIBES WAR - I FARCE' 1 I II Writer Who Returns From I Russo-Polish Front Says M There Has Been Little g Bloodshed . j, By EARL C. REEVES, fc, International News -Service Staff B Correspondent. If ' LONDON That the Russo-Polish Ik war. which filled the newspapers of B J the world for weeks, and which pro jvoked a critical international sltua- lion threatening peaceful reconstruct L tion In several countries, was a 'farco' J lis the emphatic assertion of H. Rob t. 'erlson Murray who has Just returned B from the "frout '' He summarized the case of Poland R 111 the Sunday Times is a sinking m? fashion. 1 "In the first place," he writes, "it f should be made known that this war f. between the Poles and Russians in- .fl sofar as lighting and bombing are f- I c oncerned, la a farce. Perhaps, if the j casualty lists were heavier, the Polish people might be less tolerant of thw p I peace juggling and that would not he a bad thing "The short history of the new Pol- P I ish state has been one continual po-llitlcal po-llitlcal wrangle in domestic affairs, and tin foreign affairs war on the one hand and quarrels with" the Germans. W Czechs and Lithuanians in the other. Er SERIOUS FAILINGS REVEALED. J '"Polish history shows thai a sense H of national unity was never a stroru P characteristic with this people, and they have not found it with their rea- g toratlon of independence. Furthermore they have found themselves possess- & cd of serious failings. an appalling 1 1 uncleanliness, and an unfounded sell-conceit) sell-conceit) which makes them intolerant jof advice and criticism." Murray brands the governors of Po-land Po-land with one or two exceptions. In- . I IH eluding among these last Prince Bap- leha, the foreign minister, as failing & i to "inspire confidence that they are the men to guide their couutiy out of its present troubles." iibsbb! "The only thing which saved the f 1 Polish army from annihilation in the ; war," he writes, "is tho fact that jjH Trolzky's levies are as ill-trained, us I worse fed. To tall; about organization in connection with the Polish army is l OFFICERS INCOMPETENT. "But for blaming the Polish soldi 1 for ruuning away trom the enemy ex- epi when the enemy is running aWaj fronil him it must be said in excuse for him that if he is almost useless as a fighter, his officers are worse than useless as leader- I si "It says much for the patience ot the French officers that by the time the Reds had reached the line before jf Warsaw they had managed to teach H some Polish urtlllery officers how to H lay and train' a gun. An American staff officer, who witnessed the fight-tng fight-tng at Radzymin says 'if all the Polish artillery officers had aervedy their guns as well as did those few, the attacking ) iv ho bad brought no artille 3 S with thein, would have been blown to GEN. WEYGAND DISGUSTED. f Then further about the French help: "Many people must have been stir-prised stir-prised that General Woygand, so soon after hls'loudly proclaimed triumph at Warsaw, should have left the grateful Poles lo return home. In the firsjt place, the Poles were not at all grate-fill, grate-fill, being quite offended at the loud praises bestowed on tb( French gen-eral. gen-eral. Weygand himself left Warsaw, in disgust, convinced of the impossi-blHty impossi-blHty of teaching tho self-confident J Pole cither military science or common "The reason why the Poles secured - k h in 1 Dormoue numbi ol prison-was prison-was because the Reds, who had been stai ing tot al least the previous il week, when thej realized they could fH not get by victory the food their com- (liaaaaw manders had told them was in War- SSLLl saw, preferred to get some share of J H as raptives. Tie RoNhrvik. with ILI few exceptions, offered no real resist- H e after the collapse of the attack." JH 00 SH |