TREND OF WAR IN POLAND
Successes Claimed by Both Sides INVADERS SAID TO HAVE BEEN DRIVEN BACK GERMANS ALLEGE BIG CAPTURE OF PRISONERS AND MATERIAL (By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, September 13. A Polish communique claims that the Poles have routed a German division at Kutno, west of Warsaw. A thousand Germans were taken prisoner. Warsaw Radio stated that the Poles had thrown the Germans ‘.‘far back from Warsaw,” and are driving the enemy in retreat with a series of swift counter-blows west and southwest of the capital. According to a Daventry broadcast, the Germans claim successes on all sectors on the Polish front. German troops are stated to have occupied Gdynia and fighting is going on north of the town. The ring round Warsaw has been closed in the east. German forces are advancing on the capital and forces are also approaching Brest-Litovsk. The 18th Polish Division has surrendered and 60,000 prisoners have been taken and much war material captured. Unfavourable weather conditions are reported. The Poles claim the recapture of Lodz, together with much arms, ammunition and implements of war. Polish detachments are continuing to thrust back the enemy in the immediate vicinity of Warsaw. Reports reaching Zurich indicate that the Polish campaign is costing Germany many casualties.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1939, Page 5
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