The Archive · 1939

Poles Claim Germans Halted

Wasraw Declares Peasants Machine-Gunned, Hospital — For Children Bombed; Poison Gas Alleged Used

Warsaw, Sept. 4. IPHE first important Polish success in the present war is claimed in an official communique toda; which states that Polish cavalry, supported. by bombers, have halted the German advance in the region of Lezno and Rawitsch, in Polish territory north-east of the German town of Breslau, The Germans are said to have been forced to retreat across the frontier.

Polish planes are claimed to have dispersed two German columns with heavy lose A Polish radio report states that German parachutists alighted yesterday behind the Polish lines in Silesia in an attempt to destroy telephonic and telegraphic communications.—Reuter. Berlin, Sept, 4:

A German communique today claims German troops cut off Polish forces in the north of the Corridor after another advance.

No military operations have yet started in the wes!

Reuter.

Sept. 4.

communique issued by the Polish Embassy here states that the German Government has transmitted to War-

Silesian regions behind the front Hines, aiming to destroy lines comthunieation and electric power, saw a proposal aiming at the limitation of air bombing to military ob-Jectives.. The Polish Government has accepted the proposal.—Reuter.

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