A hard early spring in Dauhinava gmina

(From our correspondent).

The local peasants are going through hard times in this early spring. Spring has come late and there was not enough fodder for the cattle, so in many places straw was cut from the roofs to feed them. And there is nothing to buy fodder with, because the money they managed to get for their grain has all gone on taxes.

On 4 May at Budslau station, conscripts badly beat several Jews. The police did not interfere.

Between Stakhava and Karalina, already beyond the border, a girl named Babareka, from Turka, was killed by persons unknown.

The celebration of the Polish holiday of 3 May passed off rather feebly in Dauhinava. Only one speaker spoke, an uhlan officer, who praised the freedom that our people enjoy under Polish rule. Listening to this, the peasants said among themselves that there would be much to say about that, but one cannot say everything…

People were not allowed to plough in the fields that day, though every day is precious now. The police rode around the neighbourhood of Dauhinava and drove everyone off the fields.