14 AUGUST 1915, Page 3

The correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, Mr. Bassett Digby,

has sent a remarkable account of the exodus from Warsaw, 'following the announcement of the authorities on July 15th that the official evacuation would• begin on Sunday, the 18th. As a matter of fact it began immediately, and while three hundred and fifty thousand citizens, including nearly half the inhabitants of time Ghetto, departed eastward on freight cars, as many more peasants came trooping into the city from the neigh- bouring districts. In Warsaw itself tens of thousands of homes were broken up instantly; all the factories were stripped of machinery ; where the plant was too cumbersome to die- Mantle it was blown up and the dynamited metal taken east- ward on the railway,