Berlin, Sept. 4.
The Ministry of War announced here today that Russian ships carrying cotton and petrol for Germany hhad_salled from Leningrad en route to Stettin, 'The German Navy today claimed a victory in' the first naval. batt of the Polish-German war. man warship was said to have sunk a Polish destroyer and submarine off An oficial Army communique said German troops hnd captured Crestocheve and Radomsko which are completely outside Germany(s pre-war frontiers, They were the first im~ portant Polish cities to fall to in-Yading German forces. Both are on the main railway line to the southwest out of Warsaw to Katowice, air raids were responsible for the death of 1,500 persons, most of them civilians—Reuter.
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