DISPLACED MILLIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1945, Page 5

DISPLACED MILLIONS

PRISONERS, REFUGEES, AND

EXILES

LONDON, February 5. The civil affairs section of the Allied Supreme Headquarters estimates that at least 8,000,000 displaced persons of non-German nationality are inside Germany, including the prisoners of war, awaiting rescue by the Allies, says the Associated Press of Great Britain. This figure may be even higher in view of the incomplete information regarding the number of Russian and Polish prisoners in German hands. The civil affairs section so far supervised the evacuation of 210 000 displaced persons from the combat zones in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxemburg to assembly centres in the interior of France while more than 200,000 Poles, Czechoslovaklans, Russians, and Yugoslavs in these and other centres in Belgium and the Netherlands are awaiting the day when they can go home.

A few thousand Russians have already started on the homeward journey via England, but the majority of the exiles must await the end of the war before transport is available for wholesale repatriation movements. 9^nnrm Cn O1? eSPondent Says that about 23,000,000 Germans are estimated to be at present refugees inside Germany as a result of the Allied air raids and the evacuation of the towns on the eastern and western frontiers. It is estimated that the figure before the 1^ of the latest Russian drive was

R(~C; 10 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 5. The French Charge d'Affaires in Moscow announced that in the present °i^telv^ the Red Army has freed over 100,000 Frenchmen who had been either captured or deported by the Germans,