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...Foreign Office drew a north-south line halfway across Eastern Europe to represent what they considered should be the "legitimate frontier" between newly reborn Poland and Russia. This line started from the easternmost boundary of East Prussia and went directly south through Brest-Litovsk and some miles west of Lwów. Excluded from Poland, according to this mapmaking, were the White Russians and the Ukrainians who were later to form such large minorities of a greatly expanded Poland...
...Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz (now also in Rumania) criticized for their professional handling of the Polish Army, but they were roundly condemned for leaving their country while their Army was still fighting. Exception was General Casimir Sosnokowski, who led a last-ditch offensive action against the eastbound Germans near Lwów even while Soviet troops approached from the other direction. Last week General Sosnokowski arrived safely in Paris, and his aide, a Colonel Dehnel, told newsmen the story of the General's escape...
Swapped Siege. Before the Military Division line was drawn, the German Army held advance positions in Poland many miles beyond it and was besieging LwÓw. This siege they proceeded to hand over to the Russians, since they were now to get LwÓw. German officers ordered their troops out of entrenched positions surrounding the city, and into the same trenches grimly went Red Army soldiers, while the business of shelling LwÓw was taken over by Soviet artillery. In the week's only show of cross-purposes between Berlin and Moscow, Nazi newsorgans claimed that...
...great war all to themselves. Attached to the Associated Press bureau in Budapest, he set out northward as Polish resistance dissolved into rout before Germany's mechanized might, passed lines of stolid peasants straggling into Hungary, sullen groups of soldiers retreating across the border, and reached LwÓw as it was crashing into ruins after 14 days of steady bombing by German planes...
...punch of the Princeton game. Hill Waters and Have Colwell chalked up the Crimson six points with a try apiece, to Wheeler tailed a try for St. Andrew's. HARVARD PRINCETON Colwell, fb fb, Danial Cook, rw rw, Newbold Grace, cw cw, Ferguson Waters cw cw, Hindley Kenigsberg, lw lw, Boyd Goff, hb hb, Richardson Osgood, hb hb, Jesser Strong, f f, Bertram Dibble, f f,Cathless Counihan, f f,Pyne Martin, f f, Holsapple Ditz,f f,Forsch Harkness, f f, Bickle Hardenbergh,f f, Chamberlain Riggs, f f, Cook Score-Harvard 11, Princeton 0.Trys-Martin, Goff. Conversion-Colwell...