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I fear I will not be able to reach Lodz." He pressed a lever at random, and the ear shot forward with a speed that nearly threw Warren from the step. Another frantic attempt and she slowed down with a suddenness that almost put the others through the wind shield. "Here, stop!" commanded Warren. "Get out of that seat and let me drive! Ivan, tell him I simply eat cars!"

The liberal economic policy of Witte has created in one generation powerful industrial centres in Central Russia, and especially in Poland. Here, again, the Germans have benefited more than all their competitors together. Lodz, theManchester of Russian Poland,” has ceased to be either Polish or Russian, and has become a German manufacturing town.

It was as though the whole country, after its terrible conflict, lay dead. Finally a faint streak of gray appeared in the east. Dawn was coming. "How far to Lodz?" he called. "Just over the hill?" "Just over yonder hill," said the man at his side. Warren slowed down, and dropped one tired hand from the wheel. "Where are you going when you get to the city?" he inquired.

It looked very jolly there, these large camps of men and horses having their supper by the light of a camp-fire, with only the distant rumble of the guns to remind them that they were at war. Two hours later we jolted into the streets of Lodz.

But my grandfather I am of family, you see was wealthy, one of the first citizens of Lodz, but a fierce patriot. My father and mother were married in that city, and lived there very well till the uprisings against the Russians in 1847.

It was resistance of this nature which the Germans had to overcome in order to capture Lodz. Later in December it became clear that Russia was getting her millions into the field and that the strategy of the commander-in-chief, the Grand Duke Nicholas, would soon be aided by the weight of overwhelming numbers.

So it was with a feeling of pity for the weary little feet that he asked, "Where do we go tonight? I am tired." "Tired?" scorned Martha. "You are ever tired! However, we will eat some supper, and then on to Lodz." "Walk?" asked the other man, who had not spoken before. "No," said Martha. "I have a pocketful of money. No, you don't," she added as the man came close to her.

The newspapers, as usual, told nothing at all, but the news which always filters in somehow from mouth to mouth was not good. Terrific fighting was going on outside Lodz, it was said, and enormous German reinforcements were being poured in. Warsaw was full to overflowing with troops going through to reinforce on the Russian side.

But as he thought of it, he felt that, it was not the one he had seen in Warsaw and be remembered that that woman bad spoken of her sister in Lodz. Feeling that there was nothing to be gained by remaining longer in the market, Ivan hurried back to the hospital, where he found Warren much better, and fretting because he was not allowed to get up.

Lodz is a large cotton manufacturing town sometimes called the Manchester of Poland but now of course all the factories were closed, and many destroyed by shell. I should not think it was a very festive place at the best of times; it looked squalid and grimy, and the large bulk of its population was made up of the most abject Jews I have ever seen.