The Archive · 1939

Germans to Bomb "Open Towns"

Berlin, Sept. 1 Polish resistance will be broken all means" at the command of German forces, a High Command communique announced today, implying that open cities would be bombed by German Planes to bring Polan'l to her knees, The pronouncement from "the Fuchrer's headquarters" said Polish district Governors and army commanders were ordering civilians to fight German troops i all towns and vill The German agreement open cities from the air "wes ba fon the assumption himself would places battlefiolé trad not complied wi the communique said, the "Polish Government and her incapable army leaders are responsible for these consequences."

German mechanized units today broke through Polish lire; east of Warsaw and advanced southward cut off armies. defending Warsaw. a German High Command communique claimed, Military experts asserted the German thrust southward from East Germans Pay with Lives in Poland Dradom, Sept, 13.

German military experts estimate German losses between 12,000 and 75,000 casualties since the: war began, but losses were chien during the last two days of heavy fight ing in triple-barrelled drives" on Radom, and the San and Bug Rivers, according to calculations in. the eld today.

'OMcial German estimates of losses during the rst week of the war with Poland, taken by per cent, worked out to about 1,500 to 2,000 dead, but since the first' week there was comparatively little "resistance to the German drive until now. Big battles have begun in the last two days and heavy casualties are: Jexpeeted in the furious fighting neat Radom and the San—United Press,

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