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VISTULA BATTLE

STRONG POLISH FORCES STILL FIGHTING GERMAN CAPTURES IN SOUTH. FORTY-THOUSAND IRON CROSSES ■ CONFERRED. (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) BERLIN, September 21. The German High Command reports that the result of the battle of the Vistula is still not ascertainable, but that as far as is known nine Polish' divisions and parts of 10 further divisions, as well as three cavalry brigades, are still fighting. Strong Polish forces surrendered in the south, among which was the Com-mander-in-chief of the Southern Polish Army. It announced that the Iron Cross has been conferred on 40,000 Polish campaigners within the week. A communique states Polish prisoners taken on the northern front total 170,000. The steadily-increasing total of prisoners taken throughout Polapd is 350,000.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1939, Page 5

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VISTULA BATTLE Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1939, Page 5

VISTULA BATTLE Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1939, Page 5

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