MILLIONS ON TREK
EVICTED HOMELESS & HUNGRY DEPORTED BY POLAND (10 a.m.) LONDON. Sept. 3. According to welfare workers, between 8,000,000 and 12.000.000 Germans are now homeless wanderers as a result of mass deportations from territory provisionally assigned to Poland under the Potsdam acreement. - Welfare workers expect millions of them to die this winter if immediate action is not They say that permission should be sought from the Polish Government for at least the temporary return of the Germans to some agricultural areas where the crons have not, been reaoed. Towns and villages are empty and no autumn sowing has been done. Evictions are still going on from Danzig and Pomerania, although the flow from Silesia is slowly diminishing. Poland, it is reported, intends to deport 15.000.000 altogether. The local German authorities are anxious to move on the refugees when they arrive in Germany so that the food shortage in their districts will not be aggravated. The refugees, as a result, are milling about in hopeless confusion. Disease and hunger is spreading. There are lines of rou'ffi graves outside the Cottbus station between Dresden and Berlin.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21809, 4 September 1945, Page 3
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