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‘3D OFFENSIVE | _Berons Shot NAZIS SAY KEY HALTED'-REDS OTIES DOOMED

29 Nazi Units Destroyed or Claim Encirclement of

THURSDAY, we 13 1941 A : HARRY J. BORST, Hitler's Conquest Technique Shown in Poland; So DRUGGIST, DIES 70,000 Executed in 18 Months, Exiled Rulers Say

and The Chicago Daily News,

~ Herman Borgert,

Retired Pharmacist, Was Lifelong Resident Of Indianapolis.

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Harry J. Borst, 68-year-old retired East Side druggist, died to-

day at his home, 970 N. LaSalle St., after an illness of four weeks. He was a lifelong resident of In-

dianapolis and attended the old

South Side High School. He was graduated from Purdue University in 1897 as a pharmacist and started business at the southeast corner of E. 10th and LaSalle Sts. 40 years ago. Later he built his own store on the same corner. Mr. Borst was a member of the Indianapolis and National Retail Drug Associations and was treaswer of the Indiana Pharmaceutical Association.

He had been a teacher of com-|

pharmacy at College of Pharmacy

mercial

apolis and

was a director of the Mutual Drug-!

gists Insurance Co. of Cincinnati. He also was a member of Mystic Tie Lodge, F. & A. M. the Scottish Rite and the First Evangelical and Reformed Church. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Riehl Borst; a daughter, Margaret: a son, Frederick; a stepson, and a sister, Mrs. Valentine Zintel, all of Indianapolis. Services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday in the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary, with burial in Crown Hill. The Rev. C. J. Russom, of the First Evangelical and Reformed Church, and members of Mystic Tie Lodge, will have charge of the services.

PRIVATE GIVES UP 10'5-INCH APPENDIX

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The story of how Germany, in the first 18 months of Poland’s occupation, has sought “to effect the biological destruction of that nation” and to reduce the Poles to “a state resembling slavery” is revealed in the second Polish White Paper, released today by the Polish government - in - exile for readers of The Indianapolis

Times. Mass deportation, humiliation of whole villages, execution of hundreds of recalcitrant civilians, debasement of the national morale —these are among the methods of conquest charged against the Nazis in the 177-page cocument that represents the most detailed account of Poland under Hitler yet to be prepared. The statement is supported by some 200 items of source material —texts of Nazi speeches, confidential orders, laws, official notices and German newspaper articles, as well as scores of affidavits from escaped eye-witnesses. Its English text has not yet been published. The White Paper opens, with a certain dramatic irony, by quoting the proclamation of victorious Commander-in-Chief von Brauchitsch at Warsaw Oct. 8, 1939. . “The German military refuses to consider the citizens as enemies. All aspects of international law will be respected,” it read. But that same day 12 of the most eminent citizens of the capital were seized, the paper charges. whose courage during Warsaw's seige won headlines over the world, was dragged to prison, then spirited to the German concentration camp at Dachau where he was assassinated, according to the Polish Government's best infor-

“The German military refuses to consider the citizens as enemies.”

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How City Is ‘Germanized’

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month after the German panzers had snorted across the Polish border. It provided that German courts should try under German law those Poles who had committed anti-German acts “before Sept. 1.” The paper estimates a total of 70,000 outright civilian executions. In Bromberg, it says, nearly 10.000 Poles, among them many women and children, were “massacred Sept. 3, 1939.” To this incident the paper adds the wry comment: “These massacres offered the most effective means for Germanizing a city whose population was only 9 per cent German before Sept. 1.” These 70,000 civilian deaths, it points out, do not include the airraid dead, the tens of thousands who died as a result of undernourishment in prison and in the course of deportation. Though often the German authorities sought no pretext for the executions, they made good use of the phrase ‘“‘collective responsibility.” the paper adds, furnishing examples. Take what happened in Wawer, a suburb of Warsaw, near Christmas, 1939, as revealed in the testimony of an eye-witness, Mr. Receulli, It began with the shoot-

| Ing of a Polish policeman by a | local bandit.

When notified, the German authorities tracked the assailant to a cafe. In the ensuing scuffie, the bandit again ovened fire, this time killing a German policemen. Immediately, the Gestapo sent

| a detachment to the cafe. In re-

prisal the quite innocent proprietor, Mr. Bartoszek, was strung up and left dangling from his own signboard. Later neighbors buried him, but for this the Ges-

| tapo arrested 170 local residents, ( chiefly professional men. After a

brief trial the arrested were, grouped in tens and marched off for execution at 9 a. m.

“I counted 107 graves,” the re-

| port tersely concludes.

Father and Son IF SUCH A TALE seems dif-

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| ficult to swallow, here is one un- | likely to have been the product of | a propagandist’s imagination. A

12-year-old Polish boy scout, walking along the Lodz-Warsaw highway with his parents, encountered a German patrol Perhaps annoyed by the sight of the scout uniform and cap, the German officer in command leveled his revolver, dropped the youngster in his tracks, then shot the father who attempted to intervene. - Or examine the story that appeared under the headline, “Ten Polish Saboteurs Shot” in the Weischel Zeitung of Oct. 23, 1939. The German correspondent wrote that a German farmer, identified simply as Fritz, in the town of

| Petztin died of a heart attack | when his farm burned.

In reprisal the local administrative chief ordered the execution of 10 Poles “known for their hostile attitude toward Germans.” This action was necessary, the dispatch said, to “restrain those who oppose the restoration of order and normal life.” =

Means Execution THE PAPER LISTS

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several

| villages where all male residents over 5 years old were executed

on “punitive expeditions” aimed

| at communities where the German { authorities suspected Polish guer- | rillas were getting help.

In addition the paper states. there were in the name of “eugenics,” mass executions of the insane and morally delinquent. Sometimes the victims were disat others, by gas or by fire after

| being locked in windowless stables | and hangars.

The paper's appendix also carries the texts of German orders providing capital punishment for such minor crimes as stealing wood (“for forest protection”) and for being found guilty of transmitting social diseases to German soldiers. Americans are too accystomed to accounts of Nazi concentration camp activities to make necessary any summary of the white paper's material on this topic. Even as in the Reich, the doctors, lawyers, clergymen and teachers—those in whom the spirit of resistance dies hardest—have been the chief sufferers. Nevertheless, the paper demonstrates with affidavits, that Gestapo ingenuity has not staled. Among camp estimates: Ordering of prisoners to rub their noses along the floor until their faces were torn and bloody, making the residents run races over obstacles placed so that hard falls must be suffered, and the forced cleaning of sanitary facilities by hand.

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Sidewalks, ‘For Nazis Only’

SMACKING MORE OF schoolboy hazing on a national scale, are

the alleged methods for mass humiliation. Whole village populations, the paper states, rafter being driven to the market place, are made to kneel and punch or beat one another with sticks. In some villages, the paper charges, Gestapo agents raided homes, herded the voung women together and sent them to houses of prostitution reserved for the military. In others, only Germans were allowed to walk on the sidewalks. And this is the translated text of a notice posted by the German police chief Weberstaadt at Thorn, Oct. 27, 1939: “In order to correct the insolent attitude of a part of the Polish population, I order the following: “(Section 8) Polish women who speak to Germans or insult them will be sent into houses of prostitution.” But all such measures pale be- | side the mass deportations and expulsions. These the paper characterizes as “the principal means by which the German authorities

plan to enfeeble the Polish na- |

tion.” Approximately 1.500.000 civilians in the western provinces | were deported to central Poland | before the end of 1940, it says. {

‘Racial Cleansing’ Decreed

IN A SPEECH AT BROMBERG in November, 1939, Gauleiter Foster explained that the western provinces, 94 per cent Polish areas representing the cradle of Polish nationalism, were due for a “racial cleansing.” As a rule persons to be deported were given 20 minutes to 2 hours notice, the paper states. They could take no valuables, no papers, |

nor extra linen—and less than 100 |

pounds of baggage in all. Deportees were herded into railroad cars—unheated and without sanitary facilities — and sealed

within for as long as a five-day |

trips Forced to leave behind their money and supplies, they could not avoid becoming charity cases for the peasants in the territories to which they were sent. The appendix carries a Red Cross report, dated January, 1940, which describes the arrival in Warsaw, after a 13-day trip, of a train bearing 2000 Polish war prisoners. Only 211 were still alive when the car door was unsealed, the report said. That the German plan for Poland envisages a slave state becomes appargnt in a confidential circular from the headquarters of Field Marshal Goering sent to occupation authorities. Among its orders was one for the “collection and transport” of 1,000,000 labor-

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ers to the Reich. Of these 250,000 were to be industrial workers, and 750,000 farm workers. Half of the latter were to be women in order “to overcome the deficiency of unskilled labor in the Reich." The Nazi method for raising this supply, according to the paper, was for a military detachment to move into a town, block the roads with machine guns, and then conduct a sweep (“raffle”) for the choice material.

The destruction of the Polish church is covered at length in the paper, but it is much the same story of looting, indignity and persecution as was set forth in the report of Cardinal Hlond to the Pope some months ago. But the paper presents an interesting sidelight on this. Of the 650 clergymen in the diocese covered by the Hlond report, 630 suffered retaliatory punishment. The white paper concludes with a section of the Soviet occupation, Here the charges lack detail and there are fewer supporting documents. The chief Polish complaints against the Bolsheviks boil down to the following: The institution of the Bolshevik system and ensuing suppression of religion, private property, etc.; cruel wholesale deportation of 300,000 to 400.000 Polish civilians of the more intelligent sort who might have been an obstacle to the Sovietization. The shooting of a certain number of Poles, and deportation of prisoners. Insofar as the deported Poles are still alive, these wrongs will be righted by the recent SikorskiMaisky agreement in London releasing the deported and interned Poles on Russian territory. The White Paper says nothing of the future, History alone can tell whether such suppressions as the Nazis have inflicted on the Poles have been truly so “scientific.”

“triumphant German reports”

armored division;

Routed, Says Moscow Official Paper.

MOSCOW, Aug. 14 (U. P).— Official Russian sources claimed today that the third great German offensive has been smashed, listed 29 Nazi divisions as routed or de-

stroyed, and said this did not include “many other totally or partially destroyed divisions.” The official - Communist Party organ Pravda, retorting angrily to on progress of the war, said: “Behind the modest reports of the Soviet Information Bureau that ‘nothing of importance occurred in the position of troops’ lie great consequences. “No important changes occur because the German offensive has been broken by mighty resistance of the Red army.” Listed as totally destroyed were the following Nazi Army units: The 18th, 16th, 19th and 20th tank divisions; the 5th, 110th and 137 infantry divisions; the 27th the 53d, 169th and 111th armored regiments; the 448th, 449th, 188th, 464th, 453d, 485th, 231st, 156th and 24th infantry regiments, and the 39th tank corps. Many More Lose Half

German divisions reported to have lost more than 50 per cent of their effectives were: The 3d, 11th, 13th “SS”, 52d, 28th, 56th, 299th, 297th, 121st and 206th infantry divisions; the 14th, 17th, 20th, 18th and 25th armored divisions, and the 7th, 11th, 13th, 12th and 14th tank divisions. The Soviet High Command reported no new development on the war fronts since an earlier communique admitting the loss of Smolensk on the road to Moscow, 235 miles distant, and indicating that the Germans had made a 40-mile gain south of Lake Ilmen. A High Cofnmand communique which admitted Russian troops had given up Smolensk after almost four weeks of bitter resistance also mentioned fighting in the direction of Staraya Russa.

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Victim of Bullets Fired By Assassin.

TOKYO, Aug. 14 (U. P.).—Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, 75, minister without portfolio, long known as

Japan’s No. 1 Fascist, was wounded today by an assassin reported to be affiliated with the strong ultranationalist Black Dragon secret society. The assailant was Naohiko Ishiyama, 33, who obtained entrance to Baron Hiranuma’s suburban home by a ruse and, drawing a pistol from a roll of paper, shot him. It was officially reported that Baron Hiranuma was wounded in the neck and it was implied that his wound was slight. Well informed Japanese quarters reported he also was shot in the eye and that he had a third wound. News of the shooting was suppressed for five hours while police were questioning Ishiyama. There had been no political attempt against the life of a cabinet minister since the extremist army revolt of 1936 in which the finance minister, the lord privy seal and the inspector general of military education were killed. . Koh Ishii, chief government spokesman, said:

Odessa, West Ukraine Near Collapse.

BERLIN, Aug. 14 (U. P.).—The German High Command, in two

special communiques, claimed to= night that Krivoi Rog, 220 miles

southeast of Kiev, had been occue pied, that Odessa was encircled, Nikolaev threatened and Russian armies west of the Bug River faced annihilation. German, Rumanian and Huhe garian armored forces, stabbing into the heart of Russia's rich Ukraine, were reported sweeping forward on a wide front east of the Bug River toward the Lower Dnieper. Occupation of Krivoi Rog, weste ermost of the Ukraine's great industrial cities, was anounced in the second special communique of the day, which claimed that the city supplied Russia with 61 per cent of its iron ore production.

Broadcast With Fanfare

The two special communiques, besides the regular daily communie que, were broadcast throughout the Reich with the usual fanfare of

trumpets and roll of drums. Roumanian forces, driving toe ward the Black Sea Coast, were said to have circled Odessa from the East and surrounded the great Russian grain port. 5 A German and Hungarian arme ored column, the communique ree ported, is threatening Nikolaiev, 70. miles northeast of Odessa, from the East and West, and the High Command asserted that the defense of the Western Ukraine faces “come plete collapse.” “Strong Soviet forces west of the Bug River (on which Nikolaiev lies) are facing destruction,” the spee cial communique claimed.

Claim 6 Vessels Sunk

Official German reports claimed that Nazi bombers and naval units had sunk six Russian merchantmen transports in Black Sea ports and damaged 17 others and had sunk a Soviet mine-sweeper and destroyer in the eastern part of the Baltic. The official News Agency said

“Baron Hiranuma is such an important man to Japan at this time

It is 100 miles from |

that a very thorough investigation must be carried out before there is

the road along the railroad from any formal statement.”

Pskov to Bologoe, a junction point| ) on the 400-mile stretch the importance which the Govern-

midway between Moscow and Leningrad. Fighting has been intensified

| again in the Kakisalmi direction on

(This was a plain intimation of

ment attached to a possible political motive. Bayon Hiranuma, as a conservative leader, has great, almost

Lake Ladoga north of Leningrad,|dominant, influence in the cabinet.)

the communique disclosed. The communique said a Russian submarine had sunk a 15,000-ton German oil tanker in the Baltic and that planes and warships of the Baltic fleet had sunk four German torpedo boats, and at least two transports which were carrying infantrymen, guns and trucks to the Finnish front.

Emperor Hirohite sent his court physician, Dr. Takuma Matsunaga, to attend Baron Hiranuma. Baron Hiranuma has been regarded as friendly to the United States and Great Britain rather than to Germany and Italy. His “Fascism” was of the domestic order in that he favored a strong government for Japan.

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Soviet forces continued to coun= ter-attack in a northern sector of the Southern Front, but claimed that all efforts of the Russians te halt the German advance had been repulsed. One dispatch reported that Gere man planes heavily bombed the railroad station at Bryansk, 40 miles southeast of Smolensk on the Moscow front and 220 miles southe west of Moscow. A Helsinki dispatch quoted milie tary quarters that though the ene circlement of Leningrad had not been completed, the Russians could retreat now only toward the east, along the south shore of Lake La= doga, and that the railroad on that route had been wrecked by airplane bombs.

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