ty to earn any money. The Russian Government did its best to
help them, and provided nineteen asylums and thirteen people's kitchens
which, it is reported, distributed each day 40,000 portions. Wood, coal,
and oil gradually became more and more scarce and advanced to very high
prices, causing a great deal of suffering, especially among the poorer
classes.

Again reports of various neutral war correspondents, located at that
time in Warsaw, are of great interest. Says one: "The thunder of the
cannons has started up once more. Only the forts of the belt line of
fortresses are still silent. The railroad to Wilanow has been closed. No
one is allowed to go beyond Mokotow. In front of the two railroad
stations silent crowds of people are standing, their features showing
their terror. They stand there like they would at a fire to which the
firemen are rushing with their engines and ladders. One's feet are like
lumps of ice, one's head feels foolish and empty. Doors and windows in
the big new houses in Marshalkowska Street have been boarded up in
expectation of the rifle fire. It reminds one of a boat when, before the
breaking of the storm, hatches are closed up and sails are trimmed.
Omnibuses come in loaded with wounded, likewise butcher wagons with
similar loads. Many of the lighter wounded soldiers limp on foot. With
nightfall the entire city falls into darkness--strange, ghostlike.
People creep along the walls with bowed heads. The silence of the night
only intensifies the roar of the untiring guns, and they seem then to
come closer."

During all this time the German dirigibles and aeroplanes were very
active, too, throwing bombs. Granville Fortescue pictures the terror
spread by them most realistically. "Warsaw's inhabitants know now well
the meaning of an aeroplane, and whenever they see one approach they run
in wild terror into their houses and cellars. Before every open door
pushing, shouting crowds mass themselves, and serious panics are caused
when the sharp crack of the exploding bomb shakes and rattles all the
windows. As soon as the danger is passed the curious collect, first with
hesitation, then bolder and bolder, around the spot where the bomb fell
and gape with terror at the powerful results produced by the explosion.
Here a stretch of the railroad has been destroyed; the walls of the
near-by houses are covered with innumerable holes looking like smallpox
scars; others, of the splinters from the bomb, have du