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...Warsaw Tragedy. The sounds of battle between Polish partisans and Germans in Warsaw died out. The spokesman and leader of the partisans, the man who made himself known to the world as General Bor, flashed a message to the Polish government in London: "Warsaw has fallen after exhausting all supplies and ammunition on the 63rd day of the struggle. . . ." Then Bor surrendered to the Germans with his garrison, his staff and his wife, who had borne a child during the uprising...
Previously, the London Poles had disclosed that Bor was Lieut. General Tadeusz Komorowski, a regular-army cavalry officer. Blue-eyed, dapper, cleanshaven, lean and tall, he was born 46 years ago near Lvov, fought the Germans in the last war, was slightly wounded in Warsaw, later became an officer and attended the Ecole de Guerre in Paris. He was commanding a cavalry brigade in 1939 when Poland fell. In the summer of 1943 General Wladislaw Sikorsky appointed him chief of the Polish underground, less than 24 hours before Sikorsky was killed in an airplane crash. The Germans were said...
...stormed into blazing Warsaw after a 20-day siege, the Warsaw radio went off the air playing Polish funeral hymns. Last week Warsaw died again (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). After a 63-day siege, a ferocious fight from building to building and block to block, the Partisan forces of General Bor (Lieut. General Tadeusz Komorowski) surrendered to the Germans. This time there was no aerial music...
Then Russia, stung in part probably by foreign criticism, in part probably mindful of the effect on those parts of Poland controlled by the Lublin government, began to send aid to Warsaw. But when General Bor was made commander in chief of all the Polish Government's forces, the Lublin government denounced him as a "criminal." threatened to arrest and try him if he fell into their hands. Promptly, when General Bor surrendered to the Germans, the Lublin Poles cried: "Traitor...
Despite destruction, disease, famine and continued German shelling, the outlook for the Warsaw patriots under their pseudonymous commander Bor, now promoted to Major General, was improving. Crossing the Vistula under enemy fire from the bluffs, Russian units carved out a modest bridgehead on the west bank, made contact with Bor's forces...