HOPES OF VICTORY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1939, Page 6

HOPES OF VICTORY

ENTERTAINED BY BRITISH OBSERVERS IF POLES CAN STABILISE ARMY. TROOPS MASSING ALONG GREAT RIVERS. LONDON, September 10. Observers here believe that if the Polish Army can be stabilised, it will march to victory, since the bulk of its mechanised equipment is safe. The fate of Polish soldiers in the course of retreat from the Corridor is unknown. A million Polish troops are reported to be massing on the east bank of the Vistula and others are defending the Bug River. The occupants of a train conveying Government officials arriving in SouthEast Poland say it was continually bombed during its five days’ journey. GERMANY WORN OUT FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER’S DECLARATION. WEAKNESS ON ECONOMIC FRONT (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) PARIS, September 10. The Finance Minister (M. Reynaud), breadcasting, said: “Germany is already worn out by her war preparation efforts. The French financial and economic front is infinitely superior to Germany’s and also is superior to the conditions under which France entered the Great War.” tfcEttL... ! GERMAN LOSSES NAZI AND POLISH ESTIMATES. LONDON, September 10. A broadcast from Wilno, Poland states that it is estimated that 45,000 German troops have been killed in Poland thus far and more than 17,000 wounded. Nearly 300 planes have been brought down and thousands of tanks and armoured cars seized. A High Command communique in Berlin states that four were killed and 17 wounded out of every 10,000 German soldiers in Poland from September 4 to September 6. TWO MILLION RUSSIANS GUARDING WESTERN FRONTIER ACCORDING TO GERMAN REPORT. (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 10. The German radio asserts that the calling up of Russian reservists increases the western front garrison from one to two million.