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...world's largest ports. It will be open to Soviet shipping this year. A 15-year inland waterway scheme will link Berlin and Magdeburg by a system of canals and rivers with Russia's Kaliningrad (formerly East Prussian Königsberg) and Poland's industrial Bydgoszcz...
...Bydgoszcz a radio-jamming station was burned down and the local police headquarters attacked to shouts of "Long live Gomulka." At Kutno, an important rail junction between Warsaw and Poznan, a Soviet supply train was attacked, and at Legnica, main Soviet base near the German frontier, a Soviet officer's house was burned down. Throughout Silesia workers' groups passed resolutions protesting against the latest measures of the Kadar regime in Hungary. Last week in Poznan, center of the June riots, 30,000 steelworkers capped three days of anti-Soviet demonstrations with a demand for the with drawal...
...Budapest during the Soviet siege and, unable to publish their stories in their own newspapers for fear of offending the Soviet leaders, are now touring the country telling workers, peasants and students what happened in Hungary. Russian street names are torn down, and banners appear: "Stop Soviet Domination." At Bydgoszcz last week an anti-Soviet demonstration ended with an attack on the police station, and for a few hours, until troops were brought in, the rioters controlled the city...
...Bydgoszcz in September about 5,000 men were locked in a stable where there was not even room to sit down. There was fixed for their natural needs a corner of the stable, and a priest, Casimir Stepczynski, parish priest of Bydgoszcz, was forced together with a Jew to carry away with his hands human excrement-work which was fatiguing due to the great number of prisoners. The vicar, Adam Musial, who wanted to aid the venerable priest, was brutally beaten with a rifle butt...
...Atrocity" story-of-the-week came not from France or Britain but from Germany. Frederick Oechsner, United Press correspondent with the German Army in Poland, cabled that he had seen 25 bodies in Bydgoszcz (Bromberg), supposedly civilians of German blood who had been killed and mutilated by retreating Poles. German officers claimed there were 800 others who had met the same death...