Polish Frontiers
THE OLD AND NEW
EFFECT OF EVENTS IN 1939
The Poland toward which a Rus-I sian army under General Vatutin is now striking from points as close as 60 miles is the Poland as it was before its identity was submerged by the German invasion of September, 1939, and the quickly following Russian attack. More than 450 -miles still separate the closest •of Vatutin's columns from the extreme western point of the boundaries as they were settled by agreement between Germany and Russia in 1939-41.
Russia then annexed East Poland, or niore than half of the old Polish territory, but with less than half of its population. It included-that area which the Russians claimed ,as the western Ukraine.
In the south the new border runs from Russia along the Bessarabian boundary, turns north-west along the northern face of the Carpathian Alps, swings back on to the river San to enclose the important city of Lwow, and then picks up and follows on its eastern bank the northward course of the River Bug. Leaving that river where it bends
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 98, 14 December 1943, Page 1
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