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Warsaw's Jews Balile NazisPitched Battle Has Raged 17 DaysLONDON, May «. — OJW — A pitched battle has been raging foi 17 day* in Warsaw* Ghetto, where Jew* have converted their homes into fort* and barricaded shop* and stores for defense poets, Polish source* said Thursday.The Jews fighting against annl-ulation by the Nazis, were reported ising bedsteads a* bunker* and 'ighting with arms smuggled inte he Ghetto.An underground Polish radio sta-lon several weeks ago broadcast an ippeal from Warsaw for help. In i broadcast that was terminated ibruptly, it reported that Warsaw's emainmg Jews had been sentenced e death by the German occupation luthoritie* and that women and hildren were defending themselves with their bare arms.”Polish sources here said that rhen German execution squads vent into the Ghetto, they were net bv furious resistance” and hat fighting had been in progress lnce April 20. It was not known iow high the casualties mere run-ling.Stirrings of revolt were reported rom other European quarters as pnng and invasion fever ’ swept he continent The official German news agency, 3 N B. reported from Vichy that 0 persons were injured at Toulouse ast night when a bomb exploded at t meeting addressed by Philippe ienriot. a widely known writer Indications of an open break in lolland resulting from the German irder for tht 400.000 members of he Dutch army to register for re-nternment increased despite broad-asts from Allied and Netherlands pokesmen to patriots m Holland to be patient” while awaiting the hour of delivery The situation still was acute in(ofia. where disorders were report -d despite virtual house arrest of he city's inhabitants following the ssassinatior. of Col. Athanas Pan-eff, 50, former Bulgarian police hiefA dispatch to the Daily Express rom Istanbul said more than 1,000 persons had been arrested in a two-av house-to-house search for Pan-eff's assassins.Britain is urging the growing of nore corn and barley and the keep-ng up of the acreage of potatoes .nd sugar beets.
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The Montana Standard
Butte, Montana, US
Fri, May 07, 1943
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