The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-21

days order of the day, had termed the Polish operations, "closed, with the defeat of the enemy at the Wis., tula" (West of Warsaw.) German officials took foreign newspapermen to prison camp at Grossborn, near the Polish corridor, last week and let them see that Polish prisoners were being loaned out" to German farmers.
 GA report reaching Bucharest from the Polish -Rumanian border said that Russian troops who had completely occupied the Polish side of the border, had released all Po- fish prisoners after taking away their guns, telling them to go home.) No Secret On Shift German officials made no secret of the shifting of their attention from Poland to the western front. While group of German army of- ficers went to Moscow, presumably to decide the details of the fourth partition of Poland, it was announc- ed that Colleen. Walther Won Brauchitsch, army commander in chief, had gone to the western front to familiarize himself with condi- tions there.
 The German radio announced that the eastern army's withdrawal to a line in Poland agreed upon with Russia would immediately set free many units for other purposes" !" Germany had 70 divisions in Po- land and travellers, especially from southeastern Germany, said troops and airplanes had been passing westward for two days. German Spokesmen frequently commented that France and Great Britain now must contend with the powerful army that destroyed Po- land in less than three weeks. Germans Heartened
 The closing" of the Polish cam- paign was heartening to Germans, who believed the whole army could now concentrate on the western front. They also expected help from Russia, especially the supplying of materials.
 We'll informed sources said 70 Russian ships were now en route to Germany with such supplies as cot- ton, oil and wheat.
 Hence, the Germans believed, the British blockade would not starve them into submission. Official sources also said that German sub marines already had sunk 360,000 tons of British shipping, and were giving England cause to worry about her own food supplies. The attitude of the United States was being discussed frequently. Diplomatic political correspondence, a semi-official agency, charged that Britain was using Poland's defeat to draw the United States into the war.
 Goebbels Denies Rumor Berlin, September 21. - (UP) - In his first public utterancc since the outbreak of hostilities Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, propaganda min- ister, denied today to the foreign press that the Reich government contemplates any violation of Bell gian or Netherlands territory. At the end of his conference with foreign correspondents Goebbel dealt ironically with the foreign or political aims of :he government. Such reports, he said, have been proved to originate with British propaganda.
 tt was reported from London Wednesday night that the illegal German freedom" radio station had broadcast that Goebbels was un- der arrest and guarded closely by the personal bodyguard of Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering, No. Nazi.)
 Speaking of foreign reports that the Reich government or army high command contemplates violation of the neutrality of Holland or Belgi- um Goebbels said:
 T am in position to categorical ly and absolutely unambiguously deny these reports.
 '"The German government never had intention and never will have the intention of violating Dutch and Belgian neutrality" Neutral Attitude Goebbels, who declared his readi- ness to answer questions from the correspondents. said that Luxem- bourg also could be included in his statement of the governments atti-