PRISONERS OF WAR
FATE OF 2,000,000 POLES KEPT IN SEALED TRUCKS
HANDS AND FEET FROZEN (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Feb. 12 Two million Polish prisoners of ■ war were taken from East Prussia to Warsaw and kept for 13 days in sealed trucks, 50 to 70 in each, says the Paris correspondent of the Times. When the trucks were opened 211 ! of the prisoners were dead and the i remainder were so enfeebled that j they could absorb only liquids. One hundred and forty-nine Poles : in two convoys en route to German Poland from Russian Poland had their hands and feet frozen.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21037, 13 February 1940, Page 5
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