STILL INTACT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 214, 11 September 1939, Page 7

STILL INTACT.

POLISH ARMY.

Ordered Retreat Was A Brilliant Feat. REPORTS OF CASUALTIES. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON. September 10. A New York cable says the correspondent of the United Press has arrived at Bucharest after a 64-hour journey from Warsaw, during which he saw Tomaszow, a market town of no military importance, a smoking ruin as the result of aerial bombardment last Thursday. The Polish Army, he states, is largely intact, with no sign of military demoralisation. For the most part it withdrew in ordered units. Neutral military observers declare the retreat to have been a brilliant feat, carried out at top speed over difficult country. The only losses of any size amounted to between two and six divisions, cut off and captured at Posnan.

The Ministry of Information says the Polish Army has '"shown no signs of ciacking" despite Germany's big push. Berlin reports that the first hospital trains have arrived at Potsdamer station. A communique from the High Coin-1 maud states that four were killed and l 17 wounded out of every 10.000 German soldiers in Poland between September 4 and (i. A later estimate is nine killed and 40 wounded out of every 10,000. A broadcast from Wilno states that it is estimated that 40,000 German troops have been killed in Poland so far, and over 17.000 have been wounded. Nearly 300 aeroplanes have been brought dowli and thousands of tanks and armoured cars have been seized.