GERMANS CLAIM VICTORY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1939, Page 7

GERMANS CLAIM VICTORY

With Capture of 105,000 Prisoners MORE ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED AT WARSAW HEAVY LOSSES OF NAZI AIRMEN IN POLAND z (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.) LONDON, September 20. The German High Command announces that the battle of Kutno has ended and that the Germans have.taken 10;i,OUU prisoners. The Commandant of the Warsaw defence army, in a communique, says that repeated German attacks from the east on the city and suburbs were repulsed with heavy losses, the invaders were ejected from their southern positions and the Poles were successful in a counter-offensive on the western outskirts. An Independent Cable message from Copenhagen says an open admission that the German air force suffered heavily in the Polish conflict is given by an appeal to the Nazi youth between the ages of 17 and 20 years to join the dying personnel. It. is estimated that the Germans lost a thousand aiimen in Poland. . , . The German newspapers admit great activity by .tolisli guerillas behind the front. Hundreds of Germans have been sniped, including Major-General Wilhelm Roettig, Inspector General of Germany’s gendarmes.