The Boy Scouts in Front of Warsaw

Or In the Wake of War

Boy Scout Series Volume 20

By Colonel George Durston





Chapter I

The Disappearance

It was the fifth of August. Warsaw the brilliant, Warsaw the
Beautiful, the best beloved of her adoring people, had fallen. Torn by
bombs, wrecked by great shells, devastated by hordes of alien invaders,
she lay in ruins.

Her people, despairing, seemed for the greater part to have vanished in
the two days since the fatal third of August when the city was taken.

Many of the wealthiest of her citizens had taken refuge in the lower
part of the city, leaving their magnificent palaces and residences
situated in the newer part to the flood of invading soldiers, who went
with unerring directness to the parts containing the greatest comfort
and luxury.