BATTLE OF VISTULA

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 72, 22 September 1939, Page 7

BATTLE OF VISTULA

POLES STILL ACTIVE

RESULT NOT YET CLEAR

GERMAN REPORT

MANY PRISONERS TAKEN

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.! (Received September 22, 11 a.m.) LONDON, September 21. A Berlin message says that the German High Command reports that the result of the battle of the Vistula cannot be ascertained yet. As far as is known nine Polish divisions and parts of ten further divisions, also three cavalry brigades, are still, fighting. Strong Polish forces surrendered in the south, among whom was the Commander-in-Chief of the southern Polish army. It is announced that the Iron Cross is being conferred on 40,000 Polish campaigners within a Aveek. The Nazis estimate that moppingup operations will take a week. The army is reluctant to shell Warsaw heavily, hoping that, surrender will save further destruction of valuable property. Civilians as well as soldiers have been thrown into the prison camps established in Poland. A Moscow report says the Soviet claims to have taken 60,000 prisoners, 280 cannon, and 120 aeroplanes. A report from Rome states that the Poles are still holding out in Gdynia. Furthermore, Modlin has not fallen. A Berlin communique says that Polish prisoners on the northern front total 170,000. and they are steadily increasing. Prisoners throughout Poland total 350,000. A communique issued in Moscow announces that the Red Army will occupy for the present a line from Grodno to Lemberg. / A Paris message says that the military correspondent of the "Excelsior" reports that guerrilla warfare against Germany has been going on for several weeks in the Upper Tatra district.in Northern Slovakia. The Slovakian chief Sidor, who refused to join the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914, heads a small independent army, camping in the mountains, which frequently swoops down on territory occupied by the Germans, who so far have not dared to venture into the hill country. It is officially announced from Bucharest that the Polish Com-mander-in-Chief (Marshal SmiglyRydz) has been internad for the duration of the Avar.