The Archive · 1939

Polish Army

Success in this plan requires swift concentration of highly mobile troops ft selected points to hustle and never allow the Poles to rally for counter-Attacks. It Involves big risks in long, Vulnerable lines of communication, dnd delay in bringing up supplies. Observers here find this illustrated in the recapture of Lodz where the Germans neglected to protect their rear.

Some observers prophesy that part of the Polish Army will escape both sides when they try closing the net. Strong Polish reinforcements are now on their way to save Lwow and Po-Tand's invaluable communications with Rumania, The Germans are des-berately trying to reach the ollfelds fat Droholyes and Boryslaw, but the Poles are preparing to destroy them. Reuter. north toward the upper Bug River. These movements comprised the southern half of the whole German pineer move.

Tu the north, the Reich's forces pushed down north-west of Warsaw toward the lower Bug River, secking to eross It and drive on south between Warsaw and Siedice, to the west. The attackers could then advance on Brest-Litovsk, west-south-west of Warsaw.

Concliding their survey, military experts stated that on the central front between Warsaw and Lodz, some 80 miles to the south-east, Polish forees had not only succeeded in maintaining contact with the bulk of the Polish Army but had re-occupied

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