THE SLAV LION IN THE KAISER'S PATH

THE POLISH MILITARY MISSION AT THE CITY HALL

86,000,000 Oppressed Peoples in Dual Organizing of Their Power Would
Empire Await Coming of Polish Rob Kaiser of Best Strategic '

Legions to Unite Against Military Base for Pan-

Their Oppressors German Expansion
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By Caroline Dawes Appleton

the Baltic and the vast governments add the weight of their the red and tan of the armies of j ."that pitiable and miseraMi
Íj>ROM plains of Poland, through and
spanning the fertile valley oí
promise of support.
Slav armies, Polish, Czecho-Slovak
and Jugo-Slav, have been recruited
Serbia. And out of the darkness Masaryk, who 13 unfortunately ns|
and the obscurity of the towering j the only one of his species in tfa
hills would descend Austrian skir¬ monarchy!" as Count Czenün bittes»
the Danube and anchoring finally in in America, France and Italy and mishing parties, to stay a while in ly observed.has brought to Am»^
the ancient fastnesses of Serbia and have fought individually on many swift, terrible action, and leave be¬ the definite, visible knowledge of tfc»
Í' int.- for the liberation of their peo¬ hind them the lesser number, torn fiery, waitng weapon which his «ma.
Montenegro, extends a mighty^.chain.
Welded by suffering, oppressiontand ple. by the brief, ferocious combat, lying try represents. "Not the only «a»
i:o Polish army, brought to life among the echoes of thei# glorious of his species," Professor Masaryirg
the indomitable fraternity of race, it by a decree of President Poincaré past.
cuts in twain the dual monarchy of of France on June 4, 1917, has met
presentation of his cause to the
The battle line which divided Ser- ! American public, freed and cnhas*
pan-Germany. In this chain of with the approval and sanction of bia which sang of Monastir and j>ered by the meshes of German di¬
Slavic nations which lies across Cen¬ the United States and other Allied Prizrend.that aged fastness an- plomacy, is gall and wormwood ta
tral Europe, in the very heart of the governments. Over and over again chored among the cloudy peaks of the Central Powers.
small Polish forces have been prac¬ Old Serbia.from some millions of
enemy's country, is no crashed, shat¬ tically exterminated and have risen her loyal sons in Bosnia-Herzego¬ Musician Strikes Note
tered -weapon for reforging, but a again with indomitable courage and vina who dared sing, but not aloud; Of World Harmony
twe-edged sword which is ready and constituted themselves a force to be that battle line was drawn between
waiting to be grasped and wielded reckoned with. The organization in¬ Serb and Serb and by Serbian blood, Out of Poland, heading Poland8«
tö the confusion of the tyranny
spired and fostered by Ignace Jan not in civil war but in the most long, proud list of artistic achieve,
Paderewski, the Polish Army in frightful tragedy of unwilling ments, is Ignace Jan Paderewski
which threatens the world. France, has recruited in America a fratricide the world has ever known. Quietly, with military efficiency,
These Slavic nations, Secretary considerable force which has been the
still In some instances the Austro-Ger- great pianist and composer has laid
Lansing reiterated only Friday, are and is in training in the United man governments considered the ex¬ the foundations in America of the
States and Canada and is trans¬ ammunition and forthcoming Slavic army by his care¬
to be made free before America will First row (left to right).Mr. Sieminski and Colonel Martin *f the French Military Mission; I. J. Paderewski and Major J. pediencyin saving
of
ported constantly by contingents to energy quelling Jugo-Slavic dis¬ fully recruited Polish Army in
consider the war won. This is the the Western front. Kozlowski, Chief "Polish Military Mission to the United States.
of their efforts toward turbances otherwise than by actual France. The latter has so dista.
story own Poland, for generations crushed Second row.Major J. Wagner, Polish Military Mission; Lieutenant Poniatowski and Captain Grodzki. slaughter of the civilian population guished itself in combat that even
winning that freedom. beneath the upper and nether mill¬ and the wholesale execution of such France, who is sparing of certain of
Of the 180,000,000 inhabitants of stones of Russian and »German au¬ plan, emanating from tent powers of the Slavic chain. scene of the most inspired Christian German governments reckoned with soldiers as proved to be a disturb¬ her more delicate compliments, has
has flamed steadily in tire¬ Slavic original
The
pan-Germany 86,000,000, or nearly tocracy, leaders in America and in¬ the Czecho-Slovaks and the Jugo¬ martyrdom.the helpless, impotent the dangers of this sudden coordina¬ ing element in their organizations. christened this Polish force as
less, incessant but unaided rebellion. dorsed by M. Paderewski, Dr. Mi- slavs.
half, are anti-pan-Germanist slaves, At the outbreak of the war, again losh ally of the abhorred Mussulman, tion of Slavic influence in the inti¬ They their
conceived a thorough plan for "trc .pes d'élite."
Trivounatz, president of the whose westward progress she sacri¬ mate proximity of regimental incarceration in prisons and In a
and 59,000,000 of these latter inhabit ground exceeding small beneath the Serbian National Defence The former, a nation of scholars, or¬
camps. Here their grad¬ American address made
internment recent before aa
League ficed her national liberty impede. ganization, impossible to say. It ual extermination
to it is
the enthralled territories of Central fair promises of both countries, Po¬ and member of the South-Slav Na¬ scientists and patriots of high intel¬ is known, however, that in an ad¬ could officially be¬ university, M. Paderew.
land maintained the spirit of her na¬ tional Council, in Washington, and lectual order, has struggled against One Hundred Regiments ski makes a logical and impassioned
Europe. .

the encroachments of vance upon the Galician front come a matter of "accident" and at¬
These figures and others are pre¬ tional ideals. Thirty thousand young Czecho-Slovak leaders, among them the fifteenth century.Germany
since appeal to American centres of learn«
men died by hanging for refusing to Gaza H. Through all Desert in Battle nearly a hundred regiments of tributable to the "exigencies of war." ing for their organized participa»
sented by André Chéradame, faie cele¬ enlist in the German and Austrian Mika, member of the the pages of a bloody but magnifi¬ Despite the frantic and subse¬ Czecho-Slovaks deserted in their en¬ Due to the "unavoidable" condi¬ tion in the great movement
brated French military critic, in armies. Polish women, struggling to
Czecho-Slovak National Council, and
not only the vol¬ have history
cent the Czecho-Slovaks quently carefully intensive efforts tirety to the enemy's side. tions, calculated to appear so favor¬ after all, involves not only thewhich, free¬
others, comprises intensified the artistic, liter¬ of Austria-Germany for the Ger- In 1916, during Rumania's tragic ably in a final reckoning, Serbian dom of a vast race, but the reëstab-
recent articles in "The Atlantic keep a foothold upon the land of untary enlistment of men exempt prisoners died with
ary and religious culture of Bohe¬ manization of Bohemia, the flame of stand for justice and liberty, 36,000 obliging rapidity. lishment of those ancient mills of
Monthly." Referring to the recent¬ their fathers, battered and torn by from the draft, but also those mia, sustaining its claim to the Slavic nationalism has burned as Czecho-Slovaks escaped to the -Ru¬ In 1916 spotted typhus ravaged the education with which the world can¬
fluctuating warfare which swept
ly agitated insurrectionary move¬ backward and forward across the draftees already in training in standard of second to none among steadily there as throughout the manian border and there fought internment camps in this section of not well dispense in its
ment among the Slavs of Central American training camps. The lat¬ the world's centres
Slavic chain. The Slav language, with the Rumanian armies; of that Austria. The military authorities struggle for rehabilitation.
post-wa»
plains they worship, clung desperate¬ ter, fervent Slavic patriots, live, of learning.
ordered the instant closing of the j
Europe, M. Chéradame says : ly to their children, doggedly prefer¬ many of them, under the technical It was the University of Prague spoken in the streets of Czecho¬ gallant number 34,000 fell at the
Not until a week had In part M. Paderewski says:
"These regions form the most in¬ ring to die with them by slow starva¬ stigma of "enemy aliens" by vir¬ which gave forth the indomitable slovak cities only at great peril; siege of Dobrudja. Of the 33,000 who barracks.
Slavic industries, schools, churches, the deserted to the Serbian forces in passed was a regimental surgeon dis¬
"You are here in one of the great«
dispensable and, at the same time, the of tion.which, after all, held the glory tue of their Austrian sovereignty; spirit of John Hus and the crusade¬
preceding only 4,000 patched to investigate the conditions est
martyrdom.to selling them into their imperfect knowl¬ like period of the Hussite Wars. and, above all, political centres, year sur¬ power houses of the United
most vulnerable strategic base of all German slavery even for the vast furthermore, John Hus gave to Europe the hope were crushed beneath such oppres¬ vive to-day.
and if possible localize the disease. States. You are concentrating here
edge of the English language ren¬ He arrived to find a vast Serbian
military pan-Germany. In fact, all sums of "150 marks for a boy and ders their training with American for freedom of individual con¬ sive vigilance as rendered their In Poland, Bohemia and Jugo¬ grave. Nine thousand Serbians had the heat of thousands of young
the rail and water lines of communi¬ 100 marks for a girl." These terms troops difficult. High ranking but science; not only religious reform, existence impossible. It is due to slavia alike the crime of desertion perished within the week. They American hearts ; you are generating
the philosophic platform which just this cautious distribution and became a heroism. The standard were buried here the
cation which connect Austria and appeared
the walls
recently placards upon American officers, dealing
of
in with this
inspired the French Revolution. He dissipation of community spirit and tragedy of our American Civil by the hundreds in one sands of light for hundreds of thou¬
American minds. You art
Germany with Russia, the Balkans ernor General von Beseler. Warsaw, signed by Gov¬ foreign element and the attendant grave. When the earth was levelled
difficulties of its training, have-con¬ was burnt alive for heresy, and the effort that the Central Powers have War, when brother fought against an inscription was placed upon the laying and establishing the sohd,
and Turlley traverse these regions. curred in the opinion that it would be entire Czech nation arose to avenge maintained "efnoient" supremacy brother, has been magnified a thou¬ site: "Here are buried Serbian round foundation for public opinions,
Three an! a half years of'war have The Fountainhead more practicable to form these men his death. What originated as a re¬
over so vital a race. j sandfold in the seething turmoil of soldiers who died of wounds received j Vou are sanctioning ideas, conge-
demonstrated that without the troops Of European Culture with those of voluntary enlistment, ligious war quickly assumed a na¬ But there was a slip in this ex¬ Central Europe. in the Austro-Hungarian-Serbian j crating facts.
and divers contributions of the Bal¬ and thus create" a Slavic army un¬ tional character; Germany attempt¬ cellent policy, based, as is said by Crowds thronging the streets of war provoked by Serbia." "Give us some of that precious
ed an invasion of Bohemia, not once André Chéradame, upon German
kans and Turkey, to which are now of Out of the blood drenched plains der American control; or a Slavic Polish and Czecho-Slovak cities, Under this epitaph lie nine thou¬ heat; give us some of that pricelesa
Poland (the name is derived from contingent of the United States watching with anxious eyes the sand Slavs, men of that race which light; warm up the indifferent; en¬
added those of Southern Russia, the word "Pole," which in the Slavic army, to be at least partially offi¬ posting of war bulletins, have seer once stemmed the tide of Turkish in¬ lighten the ignorant ones; help us t*
Austria-Germany would long since tongue means afield").a country to¬ cered by men speaking the Slavic THE BARRIER ACROSS "MITTELEUROPA" no proclamation, no news whicr vasion before which Western Europe break these humiliating chains bind
have been powerless to continue the day falsely regarded as a "small na¬ tongues. would do less than add to then trembled, and which is now encour¬ ing up an ancient and highly civil
struggle. In reality, therefore, any tion" and which in 1772 consisted of If, as the resolution of the Sen¬ agony. The bitter notices whicr aged and inspired by Middle Europe, ized nation, a nation which has beea
serious interference with the Austro- mostnearly 300,000 square miles, or al¬ ate Military Committee would indi¬ France read, "les pertes énormes,' with a firm mailed hand upon the j for centuries, and which can h
German communications with the the present German
100,000 square miles more than cate, the approved plan comprises which were wfung from them in the helm of Turkey's, ship of state. I asrain. one of the vital organs o
Empire.have
East (Russia and the Balkans) will risen constantly the living remnants merely the enlistment of under and first great German drive, held &\ humanity.
over draft age Slavs, it is doubtful least the sublime panacea of pa A "Natural Death" "Take your share in this work.
be enough to make the situation very of an ancient and unsurpassed cult¬ that any large force could be raised. triotic unity. To the Slavic race th( Devised for Leaders
difficult, both morally and materially, ure. The four great universities oi report of "enormous losses" in ar
Help those who have already started
Poles, Czecho-Slovaks and Jugo¬ the gigantic
advance, or a retreat, on either sid< As Austria-Germany first de¬ ancient Polishenterprise and then the
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for the armies concentrated on the Poland, the first of them Cracow and slavs would prefer, it is considered, republic, which has
Vilna and subsequently Zamosc and to enlist in such meant the same avalanche of grief scended upon, and fancied crushed, been murdered by three autocracies,
Western front by the Berlin General Lemberg, are among the first oí legions as would the
Staff.and this with remarkable Europe, antedating by a year thi distinguish their service by the spe¬
The starving millions in Galicia; th< learning and leadership of Po¬ will rise
cific designation, Polish, Czecho- terse, fearful news that there nov land and Bohemia, in bygone ages, erosity ofagain, revived by the gen¬
American
rapidity." University of Vienna and bj Slovak or Jugo-Slav. exist in Poland no children undc, so systematically to-day are massa¬ democracy."
600 years that of Berlin. In j of that vil cred and imprisoned to die a "nat¬ M. Paderewski in speaking for the
seven years age; 22,000
A Sleeping Sword j Poland in 1505 was applied a demo¬
cratic
But however the diversities of
the plan may become organized, it lages had been wiped out of ex ural death" the scholars and sci¬ of vast ramifications and complexftitt
In Central Europe parliamentary system, when
can be but matter of time, and
a istence; that for every hundre« entists of Jugo-SIavia. The civilian the possibilities for world freedom
for the first time in the history of the births in Poland there were tw< internment camps are packed with which will result from the final Hb»
It is justifiable, then, to say that world kings were elected as presi¬ little time at that, before the strug¬ hundred and forty deaths.thes professors, lawyers, doctors and the eration of Poland speaks also for the
the vital regions of pan-Germany dents for life terms. gling hordes in captivity will co¬ cool statistical tidings, and a thou more educated of the women. remaining millions of the Sit»
ordinate beneath the influence of a
are occupied by people who are some¬ In the same year the Polish Par¬ free sand more, calculated to terrorize That these tales of misery and population of Europe.
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liament declared absolute religious

thing more than passively anti-Ger¬ freedom
Slavic army. |
The mighty chain of rebellion the civil Slavic population of Cen oppression have escaped from the M. André Chéradame goes farther,
over the entire republic tral Europe, but inflamed them th prisons of the Slavic race is due to from a standpoint of mflitar/
man, and who in the face of new and and Poland became what America is begins to writhe beneath the iron more. Countless desperate sacn the indefinable, almost wordless com¬ strategy, and points out the indi*
added cruelties, cut off from the rest to-day, the haven of all oppressed beel, waiting with ceaseless, pas¬ fices, the literal casting of thei munication which exists between solubility of the Slavic chain in coa*
of the civilized world and the possi¬ people fleeing from political and re¬ sionate vigilance for the moment bodies upon the spear points of th Slavs in all parts of the world. Slav prising also the at present tentative
when it may rise up and bind the
bilities of direct and immediate sup¬ ligious persecution. Serfdom, the oppressing giant against any possi¬ enemy, have been the only outle leaders in America, who are work¬ attitude and condition of Ruthenift*
bitter humiliation to which Poland for the desperate misery of th ing tirelessly for the cause of their Rumania and, on the extreme north,
port and assistance, are ready and has so long been subjected, has al¬ bility of future tyranny. Slavic race. , nation's liberty, receive constantly the Letts and Lithuanians, who, al¬
willing to cast themselves into the ways been abhorrent to the ideals of Eyes Expectant In Jugo-Slavia, throughout the frail messages, slight vital details, though not Slavic nations, may eas¬
lion's mouth, if by so doing they may the Slavic race. It is interesting to flashes of light, from behind the bar¬ ily become involved in the gigantic
insure the freedom of Eastern note that among all the generals v/ro For the Light
colorful, lands of Bosnia and Her¬ riers overseas. Truly and courteous¬ insurrection which will hem in the
zegovina, peopled with the vivid
Europe and, indeed, of the entire War fought so gallantly in the American Interspersing the three most legends of Southern Slavic allegory ly concerned with the personal ob¬ Central Powers from any possibility
of Independence the only one definite links in the and sentiment, the crisis is supreme. jects of the United States in this of dangerous expansion. .*
world. who had no slaves was a Polish Bohemia.or chain, Poland, Here it was not only Slav who war, loyal to its aims and war proj¬ M. Chéradame indicates the terrifie
Uprisings and rebellions have nobleman, Kosciuszko. rather the Czecho-Slo-
risen for centuries and been crushed valr
Since it has been the policy of the one province.and
nation of which Bohemia is but fought against Slav, but Serb ects, they are yet intensely Slav. In menace of an Austro-German al¬
against Serb. Here in the heat of this very indomitable, unassimilatcd
with "efficient" promptness by the Central Powers to exterminate what which comprises the Jugo-Slavia, expatriated battle brothers and fathers and quality of race the United States has liance an the East, which,
with even ad«
German and Austrian governments; they could not assimilate, Poland has Serbs of Serbia, Bosnia, Herzego¬ sons in different uniforms flung come to mitting
recognize how potent and in¬ on the Western unqualified Allied victory
suffered the slow torture of national down their and dividual ally the fronjjwould still con¬
swift chastisement has descended up¬ vina, Croatia, Montenegro, Dalmatia arms clasped hands, an may prove coor¬
of
death, unarmed and defenceless. and the Slovenians of Istria clustered to be trampled underfoot by ad¬ dinated millions who are already stitute a threat to the civilization
on the first patriotic head to raise But the weapon is about to be about Trieste, are Ruthenia and Ru¬ Christian Europe. That the entire
vancing Austrian4 hordes. seething in the heart of Central Eu¬ world
itself above the restrictions imposed given into her hand. The germ oi mania. The Ruthenians, or Little Here in the foothills of those rope. may escape the centuries of
with such care and forethought that the idea for a vast Slavic agony which the Slavic race has en¬
originated among the Slavs in
army Russians, are a Slavic people speak¬
the
mighty mountains among which That the condition in these coun¬ dured as a living barrier to the bar¬
the would-be patriot was dashed at Montenegro still keeps her place tries is pitiable in the extreme is
United States. The enthusiasm oi itingwould the Slavic tongue, and although barous advance of the Ottoman Em¬
the outset by the apparent futility of these has fed the recent small re¬ appear that Austro-Germany »in» n <.
mn,i> l with godlike magnificence and the entirely separate and apart from the
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depends upon their instability in the The shaded parts of the map show how a
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surefootedness of an antelope, tremendous force of their strategic pire, M. Chéradame says:
open rebellion. bellions throughout Central Europe event complete barrier against "If the Germans had been in our
But these uprisings, In which great The tireless energy of these has is doubtful of an organized revolution, it Germany's dreams of reaching the
East, either across the Dardanelles or mixed campfires flickered amiably upon possibilities. The Slavic chain is
that even the careful via the Caspian Sea, will be erected gatherings of Austrian uni¬ not a weak, impotent one, despite its place, would they not long ago han
national heroes have starred and brought about their recognition bj snare of German propaganda will enslaved by when the nations that have been
and Hohenzollern have been put on their feet forms and Serbian, and the cliffs private agony. It requires but the made use of the anti-German «le*
the President of the United States Hapsburg echoed to the rousing hymns of anchoring of an end in the strong¬ mente in pan-Germany, considering
fallen, have now assumed the dignitj who has formally announced hi: prevail when the beacon light of a The numbers indicate the chief divisions of these peoples.
of organised insurrection. The great approval of such an organizatior free Slavonia shines before their Slavic liberty and the endless lays hold of American democracy and that in Russia they have derived tai
eyes. of deeds of ancient heroism. that comprehension of the ideals of enormous profit that we all know
nations of the world, leagued to com¬ emanating from America. These all races which has made this coun¬ from elements favorable to their
Rumania, apparently spared by but many times, and since the fif¬ studies naif meetings and their try
bat the enemy of civilization, recog¬ Misunderstanding her peace terms from the devasta¬ teenth century these struggles own ; of politics other than their marked nationalistic
tendency.the the haven of the oppressed peo- cause, although they were much less
numerous than those utilisable by
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nize that in the midst of torture and Aa to U. S. Plans tions which have been inflicted upon arainst the Germans have never whose upon that friendly diplomacy tragic, pies of the world.
abnormal concern for the
epic consorting enemy with
of
devastation the Slavic countries oi other conquered "territories, still ceased. enemy.did not appeal to the Aus¬ dark Emerging undaunted from the the Allies? .j
The Senate Military Commute« suffers politics of other countries has been trian of either the humorous portals of the prison of the "Under these conditions, can thfc
Central Europe hold the balance oi has recently adopted a acutely and unheard. Peace- In 1526 Bohemia entered, with so startingly and painfully revealed sense
or the sublime. The firelight would Czecho-Slovaks is Masaryk, that in¬ latter refuse to adopt, at last, th$
resolutioi loving, picturesque, an agricultura: Hungary, into a defensive
alliance by the
power which may liberate the world which renders formal the Unite« country of fine national present war. flicker upon the inspired face of tellectual, scholarly type of patriot strategy of the political science»? j
The voice of their mad longing foi States' acceptance of the plan fy, much spirit anc with Austria against the advancing The Czecho-Slovali regiments, some massive Serb, attired in the in whom the Czecho-Slovaks place "Far from working to the preja*
freedom and a worthy share in th< a Slavic contingent %i the Un'te< of Rumania's culture, there can be no doubl Turk. Here began the series of mobilized at the outbreak of the dull gray-green
allegiance to hei false promises which would appear war for the defence not of their ing of Austria and sing¬ their hope of freedom and the reës- dice of the Western front, it woaH;
world combat has penetrated th< States army. But somewhere, jb Slavic resonantly of the keenness of tablishment of a triumph of Slnvir
neighbor's
walls of their prison; the answering the interpretation to the public o she alone, of the cause,is althougl to be the animus of Central Euro¬ own beloved but that of the blades of his ancestors and the genius under oppression, of th« work altogether to its advantaga»,
chain, not Slai pean territory
diplomacy. Gradually Bohe¬ entire pan-Germany, quickly real¬ sublimity of their combats with world-famed artistic, literary and for nothing could afford greater T»*
word of encouragement from theii the exact meaning of the
exiled and emigrated brothers hat Committee's resolution, or Militar;
but of Roman origin. mia discovered herself to be bound ized that lief to the Allied troops from the ter¬
in tb Moreover, these two somewhat hand and foot by treaties which the whatever the outcome of Turk and Magyar, the unquenchable scientific preeminence of Bohemia. rible are having}
*ounded back to them; arid now, at presentation of the idea to the coni quiescent states arc dominated a she alone
held sacred. To-day she lose struggle
Bohemia must forever flame of their patriotism, while clus¬ Himself under sentence of death to withstand on thatthey pressure that
last, the United States and the AUitxJ mittee, th^sre has been an error. either end by two of the most po finds herself.a country once the ' life. the last vestige of her national tered in the darkness at his feet was his daughter a political prisoner ii
front *"|
tban
i. Whether or not the Austro- a fervent audience of his
brothersin an Austrian jail, Professor Masaryl uprising, scientifically f»f|
©rgaained,
til« liberation of Central «uwpi/ v'