POLES INVADE GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 86, 6 January 1919, Page 5

POLES INVADE GERMANY

, AIMED AT BERLIN '

GERMANS ORDERED OUT OF POSEN London, January 3. The Geneva correspondent of the "Daily Exjjress". slates that a Polish agency in Lausanne has been advised from I'osen that a Polish army Of 30,000 or 40,000 infantry, well, armed and supported by artillery mid cavalry, has begun a daring raid into Germany, its ultimate object being I3e.i.'lin. The cavalry have already entered Frankfurt-on-Oder, while the infantry have occupied the railway centres of ' Bnuthen, Gncsen, and Brooberg, capturing much railway etock and other booty, almost without resistance. The Germans are rearming the demobilised troops, but many have refused to serve./ The railways' are disorganised, and it is'therefore possible that the Poles may reach Berlin.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. , Amsterdam, January 3. Tho German Press is insistent that German troops ' should restore order in Poland. The Poles ordered the Germans to evacuate Posen, where there has been much desultory fighting.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable' Assn. . PRUSSIAN BORDER STRENGTHENED (Re.c. .January 5, 5.5 p.m.).' London, Januair 3. : According to the German Press, as reported at Basle, several army corps have been concentrated on the Prussian border against tho Poles.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. REPORTED. POLISH DEFEAT. (Rec. January 5, 5.5 p.m.) New York, January 3. A United Press message from Copenhagen states that, according to dispatches from Berlin, the Germans defeated invading Poles at Lissa and Bakel. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn., , JEWISH POGROMS AT POSEN ,| ' CITY, IN STATE OF SIEGE. j (Rec. January 5, 5.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, January 1. Pogroms occurred at Posen on Sunday, and a number of . Jews were killed." The Jewish- synagogue was damaged by ma-, chine-giui fire, and numerous houses were pillaged. , Fighting continues between the i Germans and the Poles. Paderewski com-mands-the latter.' Posen is officially'declared to be in a state of siege.-' The Poles are storming-' the public buildings, boys of fifteen being armed with rifles against tlife Germans. A thousand Poles stormed the artillery : depots and distributed .the ammunition. They took possession of thtei railways and 6ent the German garrison at Posen a demand for surrender, otherwise airmen would bombard the barracks.-7-Ans.-N.Z; Cable Assn.