The Archive · 1939

Polish Women Mun Grenades

Paris, Sept. 8 'The Poles have mobilized' six additional classes of noncommissioned officers, regardless of age, the Zurich correspondent of the "Agence Radio," Paris news agency, reported the "Baslar Nachrichten," Swiss newspaper, had claimed' in a dispatch from Riga, "The Poles announced the formation of two Czechoslovak legions. the report stated.

The newspaper also reported that women and children had hurled hond grenades at the German forces: attacking Raviteh Southern Pean The "press published a dispatch which appeared in the Zurich news-

Polish Ral on Berlin Paris, Sept. 8.

The Polish Embassy ' announced today that Polish planes staged their second raid on Berlin in three days yesterday.

Earlier reports of a Polish raid on Berlin, it was recalled, were denied both in Berlin and London.

The Polish announcement said that six German planes were shot down over Warsaw yesterday and that one German pilot, who took to his parachute, landed on Marshal Kovska Street in the heart of Warsaw.

The announcement admitted that the Polish garrison at Westerplatte had surrendered yesterday after holding off German land, alr and sea allacks for almost a week. Only 250 Poles survived the German attacks, the report sald.—United Press.

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