The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-07
German Story On Poland

Berlin, Sept. 7.-CUP).-A war communique said today that the west railway station at Warsaw he'd been bombed and was in flames and that bridges south of the Polish capital over the Vistula river had been destroyed.
 It had been announced Q few hours earlier that German troops had taken Pultusk, 90 miles north Of Warsaw, indicating that the mvad-- CTS were massing on wire front north of the city. The capture of Plonsk, 3l miles northwest of War; saw head reported yesterday and 1t was said then that the Germans were arrayed on & 22-mile line be- tween Plonsk and Ciechanow, A miles northwest of Warsaw.
 The destruction of bridges south of Warsaw, apparently by airplane bombs, would be designed to cut oil the Poles retreat.
 The government also announced that German troops had captured virtually the whole industrial area of Poland on which the Polish army depended for guns and ammunition. Reports from the eastern front in- dicated that the western one-third of Poland was in German hands; that the Poles had been driven out of most strategic places of the Cor ridor and East Prussia had been reunited with the rest off Germany, and that the main German drive to the east was approaching Lodz, 60 miles southeast of Warsaw. According to these reports, the Germans had advanced far beyond the boundaries of Upper Silesia and pre-war Germany in the southeast, and were encamped within 30 miles of Warsaw on the northeast.
 The army high command listed two Polish division and three bat talions is said ha6 been practically wiped out through casualties and prisoners since last Friday.
 They are: The famous cavalry di- vision "Pomorzka," whose officers were mostly scions of nobility; the 27th infantry division; armored bat talion No. 8; Chausseur (cavalry) battalions Nos. l and 3.
 It was announced that 25,000 Polish prisoners had been taken, mostly in the Corridor.
 Military authorities said that the area now occupied by Germany pro- duced 95 per cent of Poland's coal, all Poland's lead and zinc, 50 per cent of chr nitrates. The Jaslo dis trict, upon which the troops were moving, produced 24 per cent of Poland's oil. The region producing the other five per cent of Polish coal was reported to be threatened by the advance beyond Cracow, which fell yesterday.
 In this same upper Silesian area, 1t was announced, Poland had lost rolling mills, raw materials and semi- finished prdoucts for her army's guns and ammunition. From now on, German militarists said, the Polish army will have to fight with the arms and ammunition at hand, supply they said of only a few weeks.
 All dispatches indicated that the main thrust at Poland was center ed near Lodz, at the approximate center of a 160-mile front This front stretched from Kielce in the south to beyond Pless, almost due west of Warsaw.
 It was announced that Adolf Hit CT had visited battlefieldS in the Corridor all day yesterday and had spent some time near Graudenz where Poles trapped in the north part of the Corridor had battled ! desperately trying to escape through gap in the German line. The gap had been closed successfully and the Poles were still trapped, 't was said.&
 Hitler, it was announced, did not return to his headquarters until af- ter midnight today. He saw Fields filtered with abandoned Polish cannons, 100 of which the Germans captured, it was announced.
 The heaviest Polish losses were said to have been suffered during flank attack by German armored di-