The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-06

NSOllpl1luGu HUH EdkG 1y west have hurled the enemy back toward the city.
 East Silesia Has Fallen
 "The East Upper silesian indus trial district Is in German hands.
 Farther north Lopuszno and Pio- trkov, (77 miles southwest of War saw) have been occupied. On both sides of Sieradz (38 miles northwest of PiotrkoW a strong line of forti- fications has been placed and an attack upon the east bank of the Varta in the direction of Lodz (in- dustrial center 60 miles southwest of Warsaw continues.
 Troops which yesterday crossed the Vistula at Culm and Graudenz Gin the corridor) continued to Plurs after retreating enemy.
 Troops from East Prussia, ad- vancing by way of Mlawa, have taken Cichanov (22 miles south of East Prussian border) The enemy is withdrawing from there and mo- bile troops have reached the Marcy river at Rozan farther east).
 Ar Attacks Damage
 German air attacks yesterday ef- fected serious damage to enemy lineS SkarZysko. Tarnov and Wres- chin Gall in the south) are in flames, Many railroad lines have been cut"
 The capture of Bromberg was a major victory for the north German force.
 Bromberg is the western most of three cities lying in triangular formation, whose fortresses com- mand the corridor. Germany an- nounced yesterday the occupation of Graudenz. the northernmost of them. The other, Torun, lies 32 miles almost due south of Grau- denz; 27 miles southeast of Brom- berg.
 l5,000 Polish Captured
 Germany previously had announc- cd the capture Of l5,000 Polish troops In the corridor
 The communique added that the western front was quiet.
 The reports of major victories in Poland were interspersed, however, with complaints that Polish civilians had joined in widespread guerilla fighting.
 D. N. B., official German news agency, said the civilians had been armed from the beginning and pre- pared for private war with in- dividual German units" and other sources reported that guerrillas had inflicted such sharp damage to Ger man forces that all civilian males capable of bearing arms were be- Ing rounded up in German occupied areas and marched to city halls for detention.
 Theories of Nazis
 News from the Polish fronts con- tinued to dominate all news dis patches, and although Britain and France had been at war with Ger many three days, 1t was reported that the western front was still quiet. Nazis had two theories for this: D Neither Britain nor France had any real appetite for general war and were awaiting the results of the Polish campaign hoping to avail themselves of an honorable" way out if one developed; 9 The French were waiting for British troops to arrive so they could go up together against Germany's westwall-some- thing the French did not desire to do alone.
 In event. Nazis believed their army could stand of the combined French and British forces before or after the Polish operations were com- pleted.
 There was little doubt felt here that the German army was fast bringing Poland to submission, but even the most optimistic estimated 1t would take another four or five weeks to do 1t.
 Many Polish Dead
 One D. ". B. dispatch described the German thrust across the Polish corridor, from Schneidemuehl to Deutsch Eylau, East Prussia. It said ''The fields in front of the Vistula river were covered with Polish dead, dead horses and destroyed arms ..l A large part Of the Polish cannons was of British origin Mean while German flyers from low alti- tudes attacked concentrations of Poles and intensified the panic al- ready produced by German armored units"
 The dispatch said local inhabit-