The Archive · 1939

Poles Kill German Generals

Lwow, Sept. 1 'A second German motorized division in the Grodek district near Lwow, and an infantry division from Linz, were decimated by Polish troops today, it was reported here.

Two German generals were killed the battles, while one colonel was made prisoner-of-war, German forees in Poland, it_ was also stated, were requisitioning all the cattle and potatoes in the areas they occupied and thousands of Poles were expected to face famine thix Germans Take il Fields Berlin, Sept. 18.

Sweeping south-east from Sambar, the right wing of the German Army in south Poland today occupied Drohobyez, centre of the Polish oil regions, the German official D.N.B. news agency reported.

two weeks, "German troops covered considerable distances and threw back Polish forces 500 Kilometres to a point beyond Brest-Litovsk, on the River Bug line, the semi-official "Deutscher Dienst" stated

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