NAZI ARMY LOSS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 253, 25 September 1939, Page 7

NAZI ARMY LOSS.

DEATH OF GENERAL.

“CAMPAIGN ENDED.”

LONDON, Sept. 23. . The Budapest correspondent of the British Associated Press states < General von Fritsch was W' ed action on the Warsaw front. Herr Hitler has ordered a State funeral. Herr Hitler had removed him fion the command of the German , February, 1933, during the spectacula reshuffle designed to tighten the Wan grip on the army. General von I ritsch represented the best type ini the r ‘ tional army. He was rehabilitated last June and given the command ot an artillery regiment in recognition ° ■ services in reconstructing the i

81 Though Polish forces are still fighting at Warsaw and several otner points, the German High Command announced today that the campai 0 in Poland is ended. , There are continued German casua - ties in the Polish clean-up campaign, states the Berlin correspondent ot tn New York Times. The German I ress bitterly complains of “the unfairness ot the Poles’ guerrilla tactics, oma detachments are ambushing the German rearguard and cutting off P a ios from their companies. The Polish countryside, though co - quered, is not quiet, but was a !ve throughout the night' with small, 1 ter skirmishes. ’ , The Moscow correspondent or tn British Associated Press says a R® 4 Army communique announces that the troops are cleaning up the entire Polish front. They have occupier Bialystok and Brcst-Litovsk and have started mopping up the remnants o the Polish army in the Augustov forests north-west of Grodno, m tne

north. (Russian troops are similarly engaged in the Western Lkraine. The communique adds that six Polish infantry divisions and two independent regiments surrendered in the Lemberg area. Since September 17 the Russians have taken 120,000 officers and soldiers prisoners, and 380 heavy guns and 1400 machine-guns have been captured.