of the gueriUas in the town, and helpert them to prepare wrecklng acta on the railways. / SOVIET MONITOI^/
NAZI SYICTION OF POL^S FROM "CORRI^OR"
I/.OSCW’, March 19th 1944 /TASS/ - Th© Gorman private Albert Kosmala of the *>lxth Compar^, 501at Infantry Regiment, 290th Dlvlalon / a TASS war correspondent/ atated at interrogationi
" I arrlved at the Soviet Geman Front from the former'Polish Couridor". B©fore the war Poles formed the overwhelming major! ty of Ita opulatlon. The German authorltiea forclbly evlct natlve Polish residents, confiacate all their propertles and turn them ov©r to German aettlera who come from Germany. I wltnessed mass evictions of Pole a in the town of Leanau, threequartor* of whose population before the war was Polish. Now one rarekf metta a Pole ln the streets of thls town." /S0VIET EOHITOiy
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GERMAN ATR0CITI53 IN LITHUANIA
ŁIOSCC"' [ ?.!arch 19th 1944. According to reports from ^ennan oocupled Lithuania / aaya a TA33 mes sagę/, ln the proximity of the smali 3tatlon logulyanka on the Hlno-Dvinsk lina on territory of an artillery firing rangę the Fasclsts executed 24.000 civiliana ln one year. They brought people there by the hundred, and shot them wlth tommyguns. The wounded were thrown lnto plts together with the kllled. Chlldren were also burled allve. In the settle-ment Ponary, near Vllno, the Bermana shot several thousand Lithuanians, Jews, Poles and flusslans. /Soviet Monitor/.
N6. 4412 March 21st, 1944.
TASS RSPORt ON %INIQUITr OF THE POLISH FASCIST CLIQUE WHICH
M0SCCW7. March 21st, 1944 /TASS/ - A TASS report fron Cairo States:
New irrefutable proof has been recleved here that ln the Polish Army of General Anders all those who 9xpress the deslre lraraediatelj to take part ln fighting against the G0rmanfl anfl who declare their solldarity wlth the Polish patriota fighting the Gercnans on the Sovlet-German Front, are ruthlessly persecuted.
Thousands of Polish offlcers and men have dlsappeared wlthout tracę from the ranks of the Polish Army ln the Near Kast.