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Warsaw was in flames. The partisanforces of General Bor which nearly four weeks ago had risen at the approach of the Red armies, fought fires and Germans with equal gallantry. From housetops they dropped Molotov cocktails on Germantanks. Their women operated 100 field kitchens and first-aid posts.Unable to reach Warsaw's cemeteries, they buried their dead in parks and public squares. Their food and water were running short...
...General Bor was grateful. He sent a message: "We bow to the crews who have given their lives...
Plight of the Partisans. The Soviet pause in front of Warsaw left the Polish partisans, who had risen up against the Germans in the city, in a desperate fix.The underground leader, General Bor, complained that Red artillery had not been heard on the Warsaw approaches since Aug. 3. Unless help arrived soon, he said, his patriot forces would be "totally exterminated." The Germans were attacking with planes and tanks; the partisans had no artillery...
Tragedy in Warsaw. Meanwhile in Warsaw another tragic act in the Polish drama was ending. The underground revolt against the Germans, led by "General Bor" (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), was all but crushed. Through London, General Bor reported: for the past fortnight the Red Army had not pressed the assault on Warsaw. Implication: the Russians had deliberately allowed the Germans to liquidate Warsaw's pro-London patriots...
...still another coal strike diminished last week, when John L. Lewis and about two-thirds of the nation's bituminous coal operators (with the other third likely to follow) signed a contingent two-year, no-strike contract-conceding Leader Lewis' wage demands. Contingencies: i) the War La" bor Board must approve the contract; 2) somebody, either OPA or Congress, must let the operators charge more for their coal...