RUSSIAN ADVANCE
RAILWAY JUNCTIONS OCCUPIED SOME POLES VOLUNTEERING FOR GERMAN ARMY. NAZIS CLAIM 300,000 PRISONERS. (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) • LONDON, September 19. A correspondent of the British United Press on the Polish front says Soviet columns have passed through Vilna and entered Swienciancy and Nowogrodek, in Vilna Province, Wolowycz, 55 miles east of Bialystok and Slonim,south of Nowogrodek, occupying important railway junctions. The German High Command admits the continuance of fighting west of Warsaw and north-west of Lwow.
The Riga correspondent of the Associated Press of America states that Russian troops are entering Vilna. It is said that the inhabitants are plundering army storehouses and some suburbs are aflame.
The Cracow correspondent of the Associated Press of America states that pro-German Polish troops are being dispatched to the Western Front. Three lorry-loads of men clad in Polish uniforms said they had been unwillingly drafted into the Polish Army, whence the Germans had captured and released them on their volunteering for the German Army.
The Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press of America states that a High Command communique claims a total of 300.000 Polish military captives, including numerous generals and two thousand officers. The communique adds that losses on both sides are heavy.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1939, Page 6
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