The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-15
HIGH COMMAND
 OF NAZIS REPORTS
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the Russian border. It is the capi- tai of the Province of Polesie, border ing Russia. It is at the junction of the Muchowiec and Bug rivers on the Royal Canal linking the vistula and Dnieper rivers. It has been junction for railways from Warsaw, Kiev, Moscow and East Prussia. The population of 30,00o is more than half Jewish: 1t has been de- creased by more than half by wars between 1914 and 1920. It was there, early in 1918, that two historic treat les were signed; one between the Central Powers and the Ukrainian Republic, the other by the Central Powers and Soviet Russia, which ended Russia's fighting on the Allies side. Warsaw is i20 miles west of Brest-Litovsk; Russia i40 miles east.
 German Communique
 The German communique said:
 "On Sept. IA the southern group of the German east army crossed the Lublin-Lemberg road (midway between the San and Bug rivers). Gdynia (Polish Baltic Port Is in our hands. Warships effectively participated in the fight for ddynia and the Hela Peninsula. Entry in- to the south harbor of 0dynil was forced. Polish warships remaining in the Gdynia harbor were sunk.
 Despite unfavorable weather, the air force successfully bombed rail- ways and stations, and by bombing and attacking at low attitudes, sup- ported the army in battle against the enemy surrounded ct Kutno.
 Tn the west, enemy artillery was active east of Saarbruecken. The enemy which attacked south of pirmasens, near the Swiss border, Sept. i2, was forced back over the frontier by our artillery fire. Deny Report Of Allies
 NO air attacks took place on German Reich territory"
 The German high command de- nied dispatches attributed to the French News agency Havas and to the Polish Telegraph agency re- porting "heavy German losses, in- cluding l3,000 taken prisoner, 280 planes shot down and TO armored cars captured" The high command commented:
 "These figures are poor inventions. The German losses in Poland were only @ very small percentage of tbis fantastic figure. Polish attempts by means of false reports to conceal the destruction of the Polish army from the world Is the most bitter evidence of the most complete Po- fish collapse"
 It was believed that with the Ger man troops threatening to close the P0lish- -Rumanian border in their drive across the extreme southeast part of tho country, the Poles might move back to the great marsh re. zion, and make their last stand there, where German motorized units could not enter. The marshes extend 100 miles westward from the Russian border in the northeast part of Poland.
 Nazi leaders meanwhile were rec ported looking with favor on e suggestion by the Communist party organ Pravda. at Moscow, that the Ukrainian and White Russian sec- tons of Poland be incorporated into Russia.
 Charge Against Poles A Pravda editorial alleging that the Poles had mistreAted minorities which comprise 70 per cent of po- lands population, and that Polish airplanes had violated the Russian border, were reprinted ct length in German newspapers.
 D. N. D., official German news agency, said, "this clarifies the background of the Red army's no- bilization on the western frontier, Foreigners who refused to believe Soviet Russia would concern her. self with the fate of Ukrainians and White Russians In Poland again were bitterly mistaken"
 Gen. Maxim Purkajev, Russia's new pienipotentiary military attache to Germany, has conferred several times with German military leaders in the past few days and it was rec ported that they had discussed ques- tions raised by the invasion of Po- land and the probability that Poe lish resistance would end quickly. Some NaM quarters even predicted Russian military action against Po- land in the next few days in re. taliation tor alleged border viola tionA .........