HITLER’S AIMS IN POLAND

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22812, 11 September 1939, Page 10

HITLER’S AIMS IN POLAND

FRONTIERS EAST OF 1914 LINE (UTTITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.> (Received September 10, 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 9. A German spokesman in Berlin announced that Herr Hitler had placed Germany’s frontiers east of where they were before 1914, This means that - Herr Hitler intends to annex not only Danzig and Pomorzc, but also portions of East and West Prussia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Poznan, and Silesia, taken from Germany by the Versailles Treaty.

ALLEGED POLISH ATROCITIES GERMAN ACTION AGAINST CIVILIANS (Received September 10. 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 9. The German newspaper “LokaJ Anzeiger” implies the execution of Polish civilian franc-tireurs. It asserts: “It is obvious that the Army Command is reluctant to take drastic action against-civilians, but the criminal attitude of the Polish Government introduces a new phase. No army permits soldiers to be insidiously murdered by civilians. The Bromberg murders, the insidious shooting of sentries, and the murder of fliers who made forced landings, are proof of a bestiality which cannot be spared.” A British Official Wireless message says that the news services from Germany contain stories of Polish atrocities which have attracted attention in London by their remarkable similarity to last year’s stories in the’German press of Czech atrocities. The feeling here is that there must be few people left in any part of the world who are any longer prepared to accept the “evidence” of atrocities put out by the German Propaganda Ministry.

POLISH ESTIMATE OF GERMAN LOSSES (Received September 11, 1.5 a.m.) LONDON, September 10, A broadcast from Vilna estimated that 45,000 German troops have been killed in Poland so far. Nearly 300 aeroplanes have been brought down and thousands of tanks and armoured cars seized.