GERMANS IN POLAND
FLIGHT FROM BOMBED COASTAL TOWNS
LONDON. October 23. Reports from Poland stale that the roads of Pomorze (Western Poland today recall memories Of Scptembci. 1939, wheii tin' same very roads were crowded with masses of Polish refugees (racking southward will) their belongings. Today, however, (hose roads are crowded with Germans evacuated from Polish coastal towns. This mass migration of Germans began on October 11, the day before the Flying For - resses attacked Gdynia. The roads loading in the direction ol the rivei Notec are overcrowded with lorries, ears, horse carls, as well as _ people walking alongside their belongings on carts or even prams. Simultaneously with the evacuees from Pomorze, Germans from bombed cities in the Reich are arriving, thus increasing the jindescribablc confusion on roads. Similar incidents can be observed in other parts of Western Poland where tin' evacuated Germans lire expressing profound discontent because of the incapacity ol the administration to provide them witii adequate housing shelter.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1943, Page 4
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