The Archive · 1939

German Communique

Berlin, Sept. 5.

'The German Eastern Army' is advancing on all fronts in Poland, a war communique dated September 4 announced today. Polish forees are retreating in complete disorder after serious losses, leaving many prisoners and a large amount of war material South-east" of Czestochowa—the Polish 7th Division has been decimated and its) General Staff has been captured.

In the south, the German forces pursue their chem in the direction of Cracow and have gone beyond the Skawa and Wadowice regions, In the north, the Germans occupied Jevonzno and the Poles are in full getroat in the industrial district of Tryon, greene elie aztaton

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