The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-18
POLISH LEADERS
FLEE TO FRANCE
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mans and great piles of guns, am.
munition and other equipment hac
accumulated beside the roads.
Although they had not appeared
In public, President Ignacy Moscicki
Foreign Minister Josef Beck and
other officials of Poland arrived here
yesterday afternoon. They will leave
today for Constanza and that they
would establish a Polish government
somewhere in western France. Ru-
mania's refugee law permitted them
to enter the country but If they in
tended remaining for an indefinite
time they would be compelled to live
In q designated town and refrain
from political activity.
Refugees said the Russians, who
swept across the whole 500-mile Pol
ish-R Russian border yesterday had al
ready penetrated as much as 81 l-2
miles into Poland, and were at Kol-
emea, west of Aniatyn. and just
north Of Zaleszczyxi, in the south
east. This Is the Polish Ukraine,
whose natives the Russians had come
to protect"
Some refugees reported that the
Russians they had met on the roads
had told them, I'VE are coming to
fight the Germans" and others said
the Russians addressed rnem as "na-
shi tovarishtchi''-"our comrades"
French military experts at Paris
believed that the Russian and Ger
man troops might make a junction at
Lemberg. chief city in southeast Po-
land, 100 miles from the Russian bor-
der, and at Brest-Litovsk, in east
central Poland. The newspaper Paris
Midi said Russians also had entered
Poland by way of Stolpce, a frontier
town on the Moscow rail line north
of the Pripet marshes. The French
were awaiting with sharp interest the
junction of Russian and German
troops. Paris Midi also carried dis
patch from Bucharest saying that
Russians had occupied Zaleszczyki,
which the Polish government aban-
doned yesterday
There apparently had been no re-
sistance by Polish troops in the
southeast. The Polish soldiers cross
ing the border brought much heavy
equipment, including tanks, anti
aircraft guns and searchlights. They
said they wanted the Rumanians to
have II.
Several Red Cross vans that crossed
over had the marks Of shrapnel on
their sides.
Along the roads on both sides of
the border were thousands of civil
lians waiting to cross or to be as
signed quarters in Rumania. They
squatted In bitches and fields. On one
peasant cart was a rabbi. Stylishly
dressed women sat on sacks Of corn
In wagons caught in the crush of
vehicles.
Tin Bucharest 1t was reported that
refugees included many Roman
Catholic priests and monks. It was
announced officially there, that the
Soviet government had assured Ru-
mania, through the Rumanian min
lister at Moscow, that this country's
neutrality would be respected.
bucharest sources said the gov
eminent probably would issue q COM
munique soon formally granting the
Polish government asylum in Ru-
mania.)
Among the vehicles reaching here
were two red fire eng'es and one
hook and ladder truck that had come
all the way from Cracow in south
west Poland, ESQ miles away. All
were loaded with refugees.
A. j. Drexei Biddle, United States
ambassador to Poland, reported to
have left here last night for Bucha-
rest with members Of the embassy
staff.
The last foreign diplomat to leave
zaleszczyki was Landreth M. Harri-
son. secretary Of the Unietd States
embassy.