The Havas News Agency reported from Cernauti today that all able-bodied Polish males form 17 to 45 were slated for forced labor on public works projects.
The agency quoted Cracow dispatches as declaring that a census of adult men had been taken and that all jobless were placed on special lists for transfer to Germany where they would be placed in labor battalions. Their place will be taken by Germans, it was understood, 50,000 of whom have already arrived in the Cracow region.
The same dispatches said food cards had been introduced into Poland right after the German occupations and that Jews were omitted from the distribution. Jewish shops, they stated, were the first to be looted.
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