Gas Bombs
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The Zurich correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company says gas and incendiary bombs have killed and injured many hundreds in the Posen district. ■ ■
The Polish Embassy in London said that German aeroplanes had bombed Warsaw six times yesterday. It reiterates that the Germans are bombing unfortified towns and there have been many civilian victims. The statement adds that the Germans bombed a train evacuating women and children from Warsaw, and many were killed and wounded, , , ' Most of the passengers in an evacuation train from Poznan, which was bombed 60 miles from Warsaw, were killed or wounded. The German aeroplanes bombed and then machine-gunned the wreckage of the packed train.
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Northern Advocate, 4 September 1939, Page 5
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