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Show jty new j XUUMIAt WHIT I jji 't!'s RUSSIA" We5 -tX '""" HOW POLAND WILL BE PARTITIONED This German map shows how Poland will look. The map was released in Cernauti, Rumania, today and radioed to America. It shows a buffer state and the parts which will go to Germany and Russia Germany. Russia Plan To Build Puppet State Contemplated Polish Government Would Make Peace. Aaree to New Boundaries By LLOYD LEHRBAS CERNAUTI, Rumania, Sept. 19 Wi Reports from, across the Polish Po-lish border today said a new pro-German, pro-German, pro-Russian regime was about to be established In Poland, replacing the government of President Presi-dent Ignace Mosclckl, Foreign Minister Min-ister Josef Beck, Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz and otner Polish leaders who now are refugees in Rumania. Informed presons forecast a new Polish government would immediately immedi-ately sign a peace pact with Germany Ger-many and soviet Russia and accept a redrawing oJ Poland's borders. It was said tne new state would be a "buffer" between the two great powers. Maps mailed from Germany showing the expected partition and new spheres of influence were distributed here. The maps, which were not regarded re-garded as official but to which some significance was attached, drew this picture of a new partition parti-tion of Poland: Russia would acquire the Polish Ukraine and white Russian provinces, prov-inces, with a new boundary surfing surf-ing from the Rumanian frontier. extending northward between Warsaw and Brest-Litovsk to a point above Bialystok, thence eastward east-ward to the present soviet frontier. fron-tier. This region was designated the "new Ukraine." From the point north of Bialystok Bialy-stok the border would continue to Germany's East Prussian frontier and the territory designated as white Russia. The map-makers assumed Germany Ger-many would take Polish Silesia and the former Polish corridor by making a new frontier starting southwest of Katowice and heading head-ing into Poland to Lodz. The line then would turn west almost to the German border, and then form an arc northeastward to the East Prussian border near Grudziadz. Poznan (Posenl and Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) would be Included In German gains. The remaining territory, about one-third of Poland, apparently would be left as a buffer state without access to the sea, without Poland's former industrial areas and surrounded by Germany, Russia Rus-sia and Slovakia, a German dependency. de-pendency. Polish resistance to Germany's (Continued on Pan Two) I Column Thraal POLISH PUPPET STATEPLANNED (OoatlauM Tnm Pw OmI overwhelming armed might was reported to have dwindled to-three widely-separated and virtually-surrounded virtually-surrounded armies. Dispatches Indicated the Poles still were holding out at Warsaw, along the San river west of Lwow (Lemberg) and In the sector between be-tween Blalystok and Pinsk, but the plight of the defenders was said to be desperate. Southeast ef Warsaw (Lwow, capital of the Polish Ukraiwsi la apprewlmately 818 miles southeast of Warsaw and about the same distance south ot Plnsk. Bialystok Is about 110 miles northeast of Warsaw.) The three Polish armies were said to be operating as individual units, without direction from the Polish general staff, which yesterday yester-day followed government leaders across the Rumanian border. The desperately fighting Poles also were reported practically without aerial assistance. Most of the Polish air force already has been destroyed, or Interned in Rumania. Polish government leaders, who halted here In their flight before the advancing German forces, were reported today on their way by separate routes to Bucharest, from where. It was said, they might go to Paris. President Ignace Moscickt entrained en-trained last night for Craiova, near the Bulgarian frontier, where he was given permission to reside with Foreign Minister Josef Beck. Beck left here by motor and Mar-shad Mar-shad Edward Smlgly-Rydz departed de-parted by way of Bikaz, in the Carpathian mountains. A bitter argument between Beck and Smigly-Rydx on an undisclosed undis-closed subject occurred at the Cernautl station as they bade farewell fare-well to Moscickt. The army leader, lead-er, Ignoring Beck's aides, stalked off to his automobile. While the Germans were advancing advanc-ing from the west, the vast motorized motor-ized Russian army was reported rolling through the Ukraine from the east., , . . . Mm 11' t |