TRAIN BLOWN UP
Attempt On Life Of Nazi
Governor Of Poland
(British Official Wireless.) < RUGBY, February 18. News has reached London of an attempt on the life of the German Gover-ji<>r-General of Poland, Dr. Frank. The attempt was made on January 29 when he was on the way to Lvov by special train. A detachment succeeded in laying dynamite on the track, 12 miles east of Cracow. . The locomotive and the first three coaches, wore blown up and many Germans who were travelling as Frank's escort were killed or severely injured. Yrank himself, who was in the fifth and last coach, escaped injury. As a reprisal. the Germans executed 100 Poles In Cracow.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 124, 21 February 1944, Page 6
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113TRAIN BLOWN UP Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 124, 21 February 1944, Page 6
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