POLES' HEAVIEST LOSS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 164, 13 July 1945, Page 5

POLES' HEAVIEST LOSS

Brains Of Nation Destroyed By Germans MILriIOJfS OF DEAD " Rec. 12.30 p.m. LONDON, July 12. Poland lost between 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 people during the German occupation, declared the chairman of the Polish National Bank, M. Drozniak, who is Visiting London. The most terrible thing was that the Gerrhans destroyed the brains of the nation. Man' lost his value as' a. human being. , _'..

The nation was exhausted physir cally and mentally. The economic life of the country had been destroyed, but what the Polish nation can do for itself would be done; "We must get food and clothing. Poland has sufficient flour and potatoes, but we need fats, meats and medical supplies. We want machinery for the installation of plants and for the rebuilding of Warsaw. Unrra is ! expected to supply food and-medical Supplies, :; "Poland hopes to get help from the Western Powers. Russia is sending cotton, wool and iron ore under a working trade agreement. Poland is getting much more from Russia than she is able to export to her. The surplus is on a credit basis."

A Russian news agency reports that Polish military authorities in .Palestine, who are under orders from the former Polish Government in London, arrested Colonel Podwysocki shortly after he announced that he intended to return to Poland, declaring that he believed in the development of Poland under the Government of National Unity.