POLAND’S STRUGGLE

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 287, 2 September 1942, Page 5

POLAND’S STRUGGLE

Resolute Spirit Voiced On Anniversary THREE YEARS OF TRAGEDY LONDON, August 31. President Roosevelt, in a (message to the President of Poland, M. Racziewicz, for the third anniversary tomorrow of the German attack on Poland, expressed his deep admiration for the courage, fortitude and indomitable spirit of the Poles, and voiced an assurance of final victory and the liberation of all the oppressed peoples under a just and enduring peace. The Polish Ambassador to the United-States, in a statement said that since the invasion 140,000 Poles have been killed in military operations, 760,000 murdered or tortured to death, and 2,000,000 more driven from their homes.

General Sikorski, the Prime Minister, issued a statement reaffirpUng Poland’s determination to continue the fight till final victory. Poles regarded the difficult and heroic September fight and its fatal results, he said, as a lost campaign, and not as a lost war, as it was the defeat of a regime but not the defeat of Poland. Therefore they had never laid down their arms for a moment.

Dealing with Germany’s difficulties in the war, General 'Sikorski said that her losses of men since the beginning of the conflict amounted today to 1,500,000 dead and 3,000,000 wounded and sick, of whom 1,000,000 would never return to the ranks, 'besides enormous quantities of equipment. General .Sikorski contended that the raid, on Dieppe proved that invasion of the -Continent was absolutely feasible. President Roosevelt had declared that the Axis criminals would not escape the deserved punishment, General Sikorski added, and asked the Polish people to keep careful note of them so that evil could. • be exterminated at the roots once and for all. Marshal List Dismissed.

Moscow radio reports that the Germans in Warsaw are using Poles as rickehawm'en, and that Poles are also forbidden to use the pavements. ”

Herr Hitler has dismissed Marshal von List, tlie conqueror of Poland, who was recently sent to Yugoslavia to

stamp out guerrilla activities, reports the Italian radio. Colonel-General Lohr succeeds Marshal von List. Reuter’s correspondent says that Marshal von List is reported to have written to Hitler recently criticizing the present operations and warning against the danger of a second winter campaign in Russia. Yugoslav circles in London report that disorder has broken out in Zagreb and in neighbouring villages following attempts to requisition foodstuffs. Tribunals of the people took prisoner and sentenced to death several policemen, and others were killed. The independent Belgian news agency says that the Germans fined the Liege district 1,000,000 francs after two members of a Resist military body were killed and a third wounded. Five persons were arrested for deportation to Germany unless the perpetrators of the attack are discovered. The Russian nows agency reports that desertions from the Finnish Army are so widespread that the High Comiiland has ordered the police to arrest all whose papers cause “even the slightest doubt.” The newspaper “Hufvudstadsbladett” says that over 30,000 have been arrested in Helsinki this year.