ATTEMPT ON LIFE
Nazi Governor-G.eneral Of Poland
PARTISANS WRECK TRAIN British Ollicial Wireless Rec. 2 p.m. RUGBY, Feb. 18. News has reached London of an attempt on the life of Dr. Frank, the German Governor-General of Poland. The attempt was made on January 29, when Frank was on his way to Lwow, in southern Poland, by special train. A detachment of partisans succeeded in laying dynamite on the track 12 miles east of Cracow. The locomotive and the first three coaches were blown up, and many Germans travelling as Frank's escort were killed or severely injured. .. Frank himself, who was in the fifth and last coach, escaped injury. As a reprisal the Germans executed 100 Poles in Cracow.
At the beginning of this month the Gestapo chief of Warsaw, Major-General Fritz Kutsehera, and five other prominent Nazis were killed by a bomb. As a punishment 100 members of the Union of Polish Insurgents were shot and the city of Warsaw was fined 100,000,000 zloty. A curfew was imposed at 7 p.m. nightly. Further executions followed in a reprisal wave of terror against the city.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 42, 19 February 1944, Page 5
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