INVADING ARMIES
GERMANY USING HUGE FORCE MECHANISED AND MOBILE. HITLER’S TERRITORIAL AIMS. LONDON, September 9. It is believed that Germany has from 50 to 60 divisions (from 750,000 to 900,000 men) engaged in Poland. The main force of 30 divisions is operating in Silesia as the main arm ot the pincers movement. The other arm consists of 10 divisions operating from East Prussia. The German forces are mobile and highly mechanised and capable of striking hard with lightning speed. This fact, together with an air strength vastly superior to that of the Poles, enables an offensive unparalleled in the history of warfare to be made. However, the Poles are consolidating new pre-arranged lines. Their morale, it is reliably reported, is still high. A German spokesman in Berlin announced that Herr Hitler has placed Germany’s frontiers east of where they were before 1914. This means that Herr Hitler intends to annex not only Danzig and Pomorzany but also portions of east and West Prussia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Poznan and Silesia taken from Germany by the Versailles Treaty.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1939, Page 5
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175INVADING ARMIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1939, Page 5
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