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Attacks Are on the Increase

The number of attacks in the eastern lands is growing: from three in January to twenty in the first half of May. The newspapers report new cases in Kryvichy and in the Sviantsiany county.

Attacks Are on the Increase

"Rzeczpospolita" has calculated that in the eastern lands there were 3 attacks in January, 6 in February, 12 in March, 26 in April, and already 20 in the first half of May.

In the second half of this month the newspapers note a new, huge attack in Kryvichy (18 May) and two attacks in the Sviantsiany county (17 and 18 May).

"Echo Warsz." describes the activity of a certain ataman Dulka in the Białowieża Forest, who in recent days killed a forester (a former Polish soldier) and robbed a forest warden and four other persons on the road. The peasants in Białowieża, according to that newspaper, look upon Dulka as a national hero.

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