London, July 2.
Despite British warnings, the Russians apparently permitted big masses of troops to be caught close to the boundary of German and Russian Poland, were German panzer units lanced through while hostilities were not much more than minutes old, it was disclosed here yesterday, Observers recalled that the Poles made the same mistake in 1939, Then most Polish troops were mobilized before Chancellor Adolf Hitler struck, but were quickly thrown into confusion by overwhelming air and land attacks and whole armies were encircled before they had time to put up more than a show of defence.
The Red advance air force was caught, largely, on the ground and losses the first day of fighting were believed to have been severe,
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