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«ЖІНОЧИЙ СВІТ» 29 Joseph Bilovus, Montreal, Canada, ON THE SHORES OF THE BLACK SEA WISH I had a little house Close beside the shore, With pathways made of pebblestones, And shells about the door; And every morn and every night ТА look outside and see The Black Sea with its wrinkled face, Looking up at me. The Black Sea with its wrinkled face, Old and very wise, Bringing tales of liberty Underneath the skies, Where it takes its journeys, Roaming there and then, Coming like a faithful friend Back to me again. the next day after the assassination the decree of the President about the camps was made public. General opinion points to the fact that the as- sassin of M. Piers was a member of the Polish National Radical Party. There were even rumors that the crime was committed from personal motives. But the Polish press tries to convince the public that the assassin was an Ukrainian because it is impossible that a Pole could kill a Pole, etc. ete. They forget that the former President of Poland was killed by a Pole. The premier has announced that, not only the person who killed the minister will suffer but the center from which the crime emannated will be de- stroyed “with a red hot iron.” A few days later, the press published an interview with the Minister of Justice, Michalowski, who announced that the in- vestigation showed that the assassin was a member of the Ukrainian Terrorist Organization. The proof of this was a small ribbon in Ukrainian colors which was found on the overcoat left by the assassin. Also the bomb which was supposed to have been left behind was similar to those used by Ukrainian ter- rorists. For the Minister of Justice those facts sufficed to prove that the assassin a Ukrainian. It seems very improbable if really the assassin had been a Ukrainian that he would have left a Ukrainian ribbon on his coat. The interview published in the press was sufficient for the leaders of the Polish pro-Govern- ment Organizations in Lviv, Domaszewicz, to utter in the press the demand that the Government should fulfil it’s pledge given through the premier and should “with a red hot iron” destroy all Ukrainian cultural, economic and political centers. He did not even for- get the Ukrainian Catholic Clergy. The next day an open letter appeared from the Polish War Veterans, who asked the Government to fulfil the demands put down by Dr. Domasze- wicz. Thus Polish opinion is being prepared for the anti-Ukrainian campaign that is being launched now. Arrests follow. Concentration camps have been es- tablished. Boys of not more than seventeen years of age and old men, all have to go. Persons are deported who have never done anything illegal, such as those who have worked in co-operative or cultural institu- tions. The purpose is to eliminate all Ukrainian lead- ers and patriots. Those deported are persons who cannot be arrested for any anti-Government action, because if they only could be suspected of such, they would have been arrested and convicted long ago. ‘The Ukrainians are in a vast majority in the camps. The Commander of the Camp in Bereza Kar- tuzka — is the Voivod of Polissia, the well-known Colonel Kostek-Biernacki who was the chief of the prison in Brest-Litovsk in 1930. The conditions in the camp in Bereza Kartuzka are appalling. The interned work physically twelve hours a day and for two hours they listen to lectures about citizen-education. The money allotted for the upkeep of а prisoner for a day is 28 grosz (about 23 4. or 5 cents.) To compare — one loaf of bread costs more, one litre (1.7 pints) costs 20 grosz. One reporter succeeded in casting a glimpse over the camp. Afterwards he described what he saw in his paper..The prisoners dig ditches in the marshes. Everywhere were police guards. He succeeded in gaining admission to the Commander of the camp and asked him some questions, but was refused answers. Europe is accustomed to hear about Concentration Camps now-a-day, but Concentration Camps in Po- land have a different character and purpose. They do not serve merely to eliminate one rival partner in the fight of two political factions of one nation. It is the fight of the Polish Government against the Ukrain- ian nation; it is the bid for the destruction of the leading elements of the Ukrainians in Poland. The Ukrainians look to the West and sak: “Is there nobody there who would try to defend Ukrain- ian Rights?” And the Ukrainians hope that, even in this time of general terror in Europe, there must be some persons who will raise their voice in defense of the Ukrainians in Poland.
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