Show Papers Show Nazi War On Poles Long Planned Editors Editor's Note While the war ar continues continue dull at Il the front record record-breaking record breaking espionage activities hold bold Europe In a state slate of jitters This Is the first of three exclusive articles describing latest developments de In the spy technique By THOMAS M. M JOHNSON NEA Service Military Writer Revealing light upon nazi charges that documents from Poland show Ambassadors William C. C Bullitt and anci Joseph P P. P Kennedy egged on Pola Poland d Britain and France to war against Germany is is cast by another document from Poland not handed out as propaganda but obtained at some effort from a reliable source fl u oThere There is external evidence of the genuineness of its revelation that probably before Ambassador Bullitt allegedly told Pola Poland d America would join the war certainly certainly certainly long before the war began the nazis were undermining Poland Poland Poland Po Po- land and preparing its invasion with consummate secrecy and completeness com com- This is the first publication of I the document It was taken by bythe bythe bythe the Poles from a German aviator dead dead which discounts forgery Instructions s to Troops It is an official instruction to the Invading German troops showing the invasion was preceded by the greatest secret service operation in history Before a shot was fired the Germans had honeycombed Poland with spies spies saboteurs incendiaries and snipers And not only freelances but but also organized organized organized organ organ- forces with uniforms arm armbands armbands armbands bands and a password whereby the incoming Germans could recognize recognize recognize rec rec- them These men were armed with German r regulation pistols pistols- and hand grenades taken from Czechoslovakia Czecho Czecho- I slovakia The most desperate were picked up and dropped by Germ German n planes floating to earth clutching parachutes parachutes and and dynamite with which to blow up bridges and roads behind the Polish army while their comrades prevented the Polish troops from doing th the same before the Germans All were to wage guerilla warfare warfare warfare war war- fare little war especially ly against the Polish army's lines of communication And what they sabotaged when war came they had long before been spying upon upon and reporting to Germany Their work wonc work helps to account for the Instantaneous bombing by German planes of Polands Poland's Poland's Polands Polands Poland's Po Po- lands land's air fields and railroad centers cen cen- The nazis knew where to togo togo togo go their spies had told th them m. m These Thes spi spies s were largely Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans living within Poland about of f them The Th Poles claim they treated these Germans better than the nazis treated Poles within their borders but they admIt adm now it didn't work and the majority were loyal to Germany I Gigantic Army of Spies To the majority of add some Ukrainians and others in Poland's Polands Polands Poland's Polands Poland's Po Po- lands land's who were dissatisfied dissatisfied dissatisfied fied and that gives an army greater great great- er than the spies Prussian smuggled into France ere Bismarck falsified th the Ems telegram telegram telegram tele tele- gram and started an earlier war has held the record for mass spy war Now enter ente pasty- pasty faced Heinrich Himmler chief of oJ the gestapo What an intriguer Agents in Poland had to be recruited recruited-a a most delicate matter matter enthused enthused paid organized coached Pistols hand grenades and dynamite had hac to be smuggled in m and distributed And all secretly At such patient detail Germans excel but even Germans need time Began Many 1 Years Ago This stealthy invasion of Poland must have begun years ago when Poland and Germany were friends and German businessmen businessmen business businessmen men and tourists thronged over the border and ransacked P Polands Poland's lands land's areas areas areas' literally literally- with gun and camera It was on a scale far greater than normal European peacetime espionage It was leadIng leadIng leading lead lead- ing to one thing war thing war but only when alles 1st in its it's it its it's s sall all set Long before the German foreign office published its white book pook the German secret service had written in a black book the names of myriad spies and saboteurs who were ready to pull down Polands Poland's house upon itself And part of the tragedy of that houses house's fall fal is that the Polish counterespionage service service service ice was not utterly befooled Government eminent tied Hog by G Go It had an inkling of the stealthy precautions but was tied hog-tied by Its government We dont don't want war they said Britain and France are on our necks not to provoke Hitler Long before even Ambassadors Bullitt and Kennedy said the things the German white book claims they said said said-if if ever they said them them the the nazis were getting alles in for their lightning war They were waging against Poland a secret war that was subtle and patient and pervading all-pervading as doom Next Mata Iata HarIs of f 1940 1040 |