FORCES MASSED
HUGE GERMAN ARMY ON FRONTIER OVER A MILLION POLES MOBILISED. IMMINENT DANGER OF WAR. (Independent Cable Service.) LONDON, August 6. “Reynolds News” says the massing of Nazi Iroops on the Polish border has reached such ominous proportions that the Polish War Minister, AL Tadeusz Kasprszycki, has ordered an additional 300,000 , troops to mobilise. It is estimated that there are between 700,000 and 800,000 Germans on the Polish frontier, but by August 20 Poland will have 1,200,000 men under arms.
General Sosnkovski, Inspector of the Polish army has issued a statement in Warsaw stating: “Mankind is on the eve of a new world war in which Poland will be one of the most exposed participants. Twenty years after obtaining her independence, Poland is facing the task of safeguarding and cementing that independence. Again, if necessary, we must take up the sword in order to work undisturbed at least for 50 years.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1939, Page 6
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152FORCES MASSED Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1939, Page 6
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