The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-13

Polish troops in the Posen-w Warsaw pocket).
 A radio broadcast from Moscow, picked up in London this afternoon, said that the Poles also he'd started an offensive in the north.
 Allied military experts, describing the reported Polish recapture of Lodz as the first German defeat on the eastern front, said that the Ger man general staff apparently had stretched too thinly their motorized columns, which broke under the at- tack of 250,000 Poles pressing sirnul- taneously from the east and west.
 Recapture of Lodz
 The. recapture of Lodz would threaten the safety of the German advance as far as Radon, SO miles risk that the defense of Warsaw due south of Warsaw, and reduce the could be turned from Lublin, 100 miles southeast of Warsaw. Allied experts, studying the reports from Poland, said that the Polish position at Lodz would be difficult to maintain and that the Germans could bring up endorsements to re- cover the ground they had lost. Nevertheless, the chief hope aroused here was that some 250,000 Polish troops could be extricated from the big pocket in which the Nazis had been attempting to trap them before the Germans recover lost ground.
 Polish messages said that contact had been made by the Posen army with the atmy defending Warsaw and 1t was believed that the trapped" Polish troops could reach the main armies east of the vistula by that route.
 Resistance Stlffens
 Meanwhile, Polish resistance ap- peared to have been stiffened along all fronts except in the south where the Germans claimed to have thrust forward to the outskirts of Lwow Nemberg) in an effort to slash Po- fish communication lines to Ru- mania.
 The same report said that the Host" Polish Pomorze army, which the Germans claimed to have sur- rounded and dispersed week ago after taking 15,000 prisoners, had made contact with the Polish force defending Warsaw on the north. Presumably, this army had come down from the corridor intact. fTy4 1avt0 tt vii PaVRAgskAA klank continued rain had stirred the Poles optimism. The seasonal rains start in September and transform the Polish plains into bogs. If they con- tinue as they usually do, German mechanized units soon vii be elim- mated from action because the roads wil be impasable.)
 Break Through Spot
 There twas no indication as to where the corridor army had brok- en through the German line. but apparently 1t had been from the rear because for several days the Germans had occupied all of vest ern Poland except narrow strip extending almost due west of War saw to Posen. The Polish corridor army would have had to travel 100j miles southward, through territory Germany claimed to have occupied, to reach the German front line which faces south.
 The announcement, as received here, was communique No. l2 of the Polish supreme command. It read:
 Aerial activity by the enemy has perceptibly slackened owing to con- siderable losses suffered during Mondays raids.
 Half Hearted Attempts
 "There were only half hearted attempts to raid Warsaw Tuesday.
 Military operations continued along all fronts.
 "The army of Pomorze, which reached the region of Modlin (l8 miles northwest of Warsaw estab- lished contact with main Polish forces and heavily engaged the enemy.
 Tn the center. the Warsaw de- fense army carried out number of successful sorties.
 "The southwest army of Poznania, which retired in good order after having fought c number of fierce engagements against enemy forces blocking Its way to the east, not only succeeded in establishing liai- son with Polish forces southwest of Warsaw but also in retaking the city of Lodz tpopulation 663 900; 60 miles southeast of Warsaw)
 All Held In Check
 "On all other fronts the enemy Is being held in check, unable to make headway."
 On the basis of that report, the German army besieging Warsaw from the southwest. which already had been driven back several miles according to Polish dispatches yes. terday, was now in Q precarious DO. sition. The Poles at Lodz could, at least theoretically. attack 1t from the rear.
 The German southwest army had smashed through upper silesia al. most to the outskirts of Warsaw, and on official German announce ment last week had asserted that 1t had penetrated to the center of Warsaw. The left flank of this Ger. man force had taken Lodz Now, the Poles were reported to have driven this flank back and to have retalsen Lodz, putting them in poe