POLES' DARING ACT
WARSAW PRISONERS FREED Rec. 2 p.m. RUGBY, April 5. A band of armed Poles in Warsaw attacked a lorry in which Germans were transporting 24 political prisoners from the Gestapo headquarters to the notorious Dawiak prison, states'the Polish Information Bureau. The attack took place in the centre of the city and all the prisoners were liberated except one, who was killed during the shooting. Five of the Gestapo guards were killed and three seriously injured. Before S.S. detachments arrived all traces of the liberated prisoners and the Poles who made the attack had disappeared.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 81, 6 April 1943, Page 3
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