POLISH SURRENDER

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 5

POLISH SURRENDER

FIGHT ENDS IN WARSAW

Rec. 11 a.m. LONDON, October 3. A special communique from General Bor states that Warsaw has fallen in the face of overwhelming enemy superiority after all supplies of ammunition were exhausted. The "cease fire" order was given at 8 pjn. yesterday.

An earlier communique from General Bor said that the mass evacuation of the civilian population of Warsaw was going on as the result of an agreement between the Polish Red Cross in Warsaw and the German authorities. There was a lack of medical supplies and food stocks were completely exhausted.

. There were only insignificant skirmishes yesterday. The "Evening Standard" stated that the patriots had not surrendered at this stage, but that a truce was arranged to evacuate civilians from the fighting area. Fighting was resumed when this had been done. '

Berlin radio said that some Polish rebels in Warsaw ignored the order to capitulate and were fighting on. The German news agency reported that officers of General Bor's staff Signed the capitulation agreement. Some insurgent units, who were under the leadership of Bolshevist officers, tried to sabotage the capitulation and were disarmed after a short exchange of fire. The last organised resistance m Warsaw thug ended.

«SPZL Pollsh news agency says that 200,000 people were killed, -wounded or missing in the first six weeks of the fighting, and 100.000 more are in concentration camps. Polish circles in London believe that General Bor has not fallen into German hands.