The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-21
fight to a finish between Germany and the allied powers.
 6,OOO,OOO French Troops

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 France completed 20 days Of gem eral mobilization with 6,000,000 Of the worlds best-trained men under arms and pushing their way slowly into German territory against local counter attacks and heavy artillery fire.
 Germany shifted large numbers of troops, airplanes and war mate rials from the vanquished Polish front, where about 100000 Nazis were in action, toward the Rhine land frontier facing France.
 Great Britain, steadily pouring troops, artillery and airplanes into France, was believed to have cap tured or destroyed about one-f1tth of the Nazi submarine fleet so far sent out to the high seas and It was believed British destroyers may have attacked more U-boats yester- day in the Kattegat Straits oil Den- mark. The German liner Bremen was reported British prize of war, but the report was unconf1rmed.
 Russia Makes Claim
 Soviet Russia claimed to have captured 60,O0O Polish soldiers and much war materials as the Red army strengthened out its line oi occupation of the astern third of Poland, facing German forces on A boundary extending from Lith- uania through Grodno, Brest-Lit- ovsk, and Lwow to the Hungarian border. :,
 One of Poland's attachments, dis putting Soviet announcements that Lwow had been occupied, was re- ported fighting somewhere in the Iwow sector if not inside the city. Another still held out at Warsaw, where Poles said counter-attacks had thrown back the Germans again and that the suburbs of Praga ana Wola had been taken in hand-to- hand fighting with bayonets. seven Nazi airplanes were reported snoV down. |, formation published by the brltlsh rninistry of informaton, were revolt ing against Germany and were fighting "courageously" despite nun dreds of executions and thousaiios 5 of arrests. Nazis vigorously oer1eo the British reports. ao
 The fact that Nazis had maoe nlans long before the war began loi renressive measures in former Cze- choslovak territory to curb oangel of sabotage added weight 10 Cne British reports, but neutral sources were unable to confirm that there was a serious or big scale uprising in the German protectorate.
 May Be Disorders :.
 one suggestion was that Nazl rsnressive measures to prevent sa- hotage might have resulted III ols- orders. From Slovakia, dispatches said that some Slovak troops were heinz demobilized which could have heen the basis for the British state ment that 15,000 Slovakian soldiers rebelled and were disarmed.
 The massing of allied troops ana artillery, the turning Of many French COW pastures into air 1lelos, the sporadic aerial engagements over the Rhineland - Nazls salo eight allied planes were shot down and the clogged German roads over which Nazis forces were moving westward toward the French border were all indications of the size Of the struggle coming on the western front. But there was also every in- dication that the real battle testing the strength of the German west wall forts would be undertaken with greatest caution.
 That may mean weeks before there will be any mass attacks or counter-attacks on the western front, although military experts predict frequent engagements on a smaller scale as the two powerful enemies feel each other out from their fortified bases or seek to gain rtro faoicol orn,IYd fOr a ma for