TRAGIC SCENES
POLAND'S REFUGEE PROBLEM
NEW YORK, September 12
The New York "Herald Tribune's" correspondent at Gernauti, Rumania, says that Poland, though only eleven days at war, is already facing a refugee problem of tragic intensity.
Even such towns as Tarnopol and Tembowla, 30 miles from the Russian frontier, are crowded with men, women, and children who have fled from the west. The roads have been choked for six days with people moving south and east from the advancing German armies and air raids. 4
Thousands are spending the cold, raw nights in the open. There are no facilities whatever for handling such a mass migration of civilians.
Those who fled southward, are likely to be trapped again if the German armies make a drive to Lemberg. Those in the east will be driven against the Russian border.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 64, 13 September 1939, Page 9
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138TRAGIC SCENES Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 64, 13 September 1939, Page 9
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