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Show 5 City Crowded With Poverty-Stricken Poverty-Stricken and Humming With War Activity WARSAW, April 6 Warsaw is humming hum-ming with war activity and is crowded to Its very doors with hordes of poverty-stricken refugees from tho areas for which the Poles and Bolshevikl are fighting. Travelers say it is the most crowded city in eastern Europe. The population is estimated to have increased in-creased from 800,000 to 1,300,000 since' tho world war began. ' Everywhere there are officers and soldiers. Military automobiles, tractors trac-tors and various other vehicles of war traverse the streets all day, and most of the night. The cafe life is as bright and gay as ever, but the restaurants and theatres close at 10 p. m. to save food, light and labor. The refugees from Ihe war-stricken areas began streaming Into the city about a year ago, and have been coming ever since, hoping to find food and places to sleep. The problem of providing for them has baffled the city officials. In the poorer districts, basements.! which for generations wore used for' storage purposes have been used for refugees' sleeping quarters, in instances in-stances 15 to 20 persons, and even more sleep on a basement floor, on straw. Others have found shelter in stables or in buildings intended for schools. Many of these refugees are women, with children, who have come out of the east virtually without funds. During the day, these people are partly part-ly supplied with food by the municipality municipal-ity or some of tho welfare organizations. organiza-tions. Many exist only by begging. Warsaw's tenements, always crowded crowd-ed as New York's case side has been for years, are jammed with humanity as never before, and during tho severe-winter severe-winter weather, when there was an epidemic of influenza, hero old men and women and children died by the hundreds every day in this land of the poor. City officials see no relief in sight until warmer weather comes, when they hope the people -will gradually begin leaving for the country to work on farms. nn |