CHANGES IN POLAND
Rain Making Damaged Roads Impassable PROSPECTS OF DEFENDING FORCES IMPROVED Mayor of Warsaw Appeals to Youths to Enlist. CITY TO BE DEFENDED TO LAST MAN (By Telegraph. —Press Association. —Copyright.) LONDON, September .13. “The Times’’ publishes a report that the Poles recaptured Lodz. It also stated that the Polish army of 250,000 men retreating- from Pomorze established contact with Polish troops in the vicinity of Warsaw. The report added the dry autumn weather had changed and rain had fallen. The roads, already ruined by the advances of German tanks and air bombings, were becoming impassable. ' The Warsaw radio also announced that nine German divisions had been diverted from Warsaw and the Vistula to western European fronts, adding that “the invaders are now definitely on the run. ’ ’ A Budapest report says the mayor of Warsaw, M. Starzynski, appealed by radio to enlist in what may become a suicide battalion to defend the city. He warned the youths not to volunteer unless they were resigned to fight to the last as “Warsaw will be defended to the last man. ’ ’ The Polish commander radioed that women were fighting’ alongside the men and were showing great courage.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1939, Page 7
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196CHANGES IN POLAND Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1939, Page 7
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