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CAVY fighting east of Warsaw, on a line with' Kaluszyn and Lukow, is reported in the latest Polish communique.
German forces which crossed the Vistula, it adds, are engaging the Poles around Opole in the Lublin district. Serious German attacks against Wola, a suburb of Warsaw, the communique continues, were defeated, the Germans suffering heavy losses.
Most optimistic observers recognize that the position in Poland is "critical The Poles admit of heavy fighting at Kaluzzyn, 15 miles east of Warsaw and German strategy is now revealed as aiming at very much more than capturing Warsaw.
Strong forces are reported' to be pressing south-eastwards from the East Prussian border towards Brest-Litovsk.
In the south, concurrently with the attack on Lwow, the Germans are thrusting towards Tomaszow and Rawaruska between Lwow and Lublin, Their object appears to be to enclose the entire triangle bounded by the Bug, San and Vistula Rivers, to cut off the bulk of the:
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