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Show ACCORD SPELLS POLANirSOEATH By the Associated Press The new accord of Moscow partitions parti-tions Poland for the fourth time, Germany and soviet Russia sharing her territory almost equally. Poland Po-land la wiped off the map; there Is to be no Polish buffer ttate. It givea Germany more than the earlier military occupation line, which gave Russia about three-fifths three-fifths of Poland's area. Germany gets all of Warsaw city, most of Warsaw province, the entire course of the Vistula liver, the province of Lublin. Of the tix largest cities, Russia gets only two Lwow and Wilno. Germany gets Warsaw, Lodz, Pox-nan Pox-nan and Krakow. As described by the German communique, the boundary line begins be-gins in northern Poland at the southern tip of Lithuania and runs west north of Augustow to the East Prussian border, which it follows to the Pisa river. It runs along the river about 40 miles south to Ostroleka, thence southeast 40 miles, meeting the Bug river at Nur, 60 miles northeast north-east of Warsaw. It follows the Bug along the eastern edge of Lublin province to Krystnopol, 40 miles north of Lwow, then bends southwest about 80 miles to the San river. It follows the San to its source at the Slovak border. Poland was first partitioned between be-tween Prussia and Russia In 1772, a second time by the two powers in 1793, a third time by these two and Austria in 1795. |