MASS TRANSPORTATION
DEPORTEES AND DISPLAGED PERSONS POLAND THE CENTRE (Rec. noon.) LONDON, April .14. Involving the transfer of millions of people, the Polish Government hopes to complete a vast resettlement scheme by nest September, says ' The Times' ' Warsaw correspondent. In addition to the 180,000 Germans who have already left for the British zone in Germany, 1,500,000 more are being deported in a steady stream from both the old and the new Polish territory at a Tate of 250.000 a month. , The entire Polish population of Lithuania has expressed a desire to return to Poland, and 2,000,000 more Poles are expected from beyond the Curzon Line. They are already arriving at the rate of many thousands a day. They are mostly being directed to Western Poland to take over homes and farms previously occupied by the Germans. A British mission has arrived in Western Germany to supervise the deportation of Germans who, it is reported, are permitted to take all the clothing and linen and what luggage they can carry, also 500 German marks. The correspondent adds that so far only unemployed women and children have been deported, skilled labourers remaining until they can he replaced by Poles.
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Evening Star, Issue 25768, 15 April 1946, Page 5
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197MASS TRANSPORTATION Evening Star, Issue 25768, 15 April 1946, Page 5
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