TOWNS SET ON FIRE
NAZI REPRISALS
ACTIVITIES OF SHARPSHOOTERS
(Received September 13, 2 p.m.)
LONDON, September 12
The Berlin Wireless attacks the defender of Warsaw, General Czuma, for allegedly releasing and arming prisoners from the gaols and arming civilians, which "is a criminal act." It adds that the Germans will treat armed civilians as insurgent combatants.
The Stockholm correspondent of the "Stfenska Dagbladet," who toured Silesia, reports that the towns of Wieruczow, Lututow, Sulejow, Falkow, Prozedborz, and Radomsk, all on or about the Pilica River, have been burnt down as. a reprisal for the activities of franctireurs (sharpshooters) after the Polish regular troops had retreated. Smaller villages met the same fate, but Lodz is intact.
A Polish communique announces that the German forces are active in the Modlin sector and also along the San River, but are not making progress towards Lemberg. A German attack ■west of Warsaw launched at dawn resulted in 7000 Polish casualties.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 64, 13 September 1939, Page 10
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