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Show i1 POLISH SOLDIERS MARCH i TO FRONT BAREFOOTED! (By International News Service.) WARSAW, April 17. The suffering in Poland this -winter due to shoe , shortage is beyond calculation. In three words, the story is exposure, pneumonia and death. The whole leather and boot Industry has been ' wrecked by the war. and even the task j of providing footwear for the army . is more than the government can handle. han-dle. Soldiers marching to the front,' their feet wrapped in straw or rags are a common sight. Shoes for civ-; ilians are almost impossible to buy.; One poor woman who had secured aj job at shoveling sidewalks came to the American Tied Cross to ask for shoes. "One would do all right." she modestly explained. "One for my shovel foot. I have rags enough foi the left." ' . J |
