The Polish police have rounded up an underground band which has been killing Jews, Poles and Russians in the Brest-Litovsk area and has seized a large arms cache of the fascist Polish Home Army, hidden in a church in the town of Drohiczyn on the Bug River.
The capture of the band and the discovery of the arms store followed the arrest of two leaders of the band known by the pseudonyms of “Victor” and “Mlot.” The weapons found included three heavy machine guns, five automatic rifles, ten other rifles, twenty hand grenades and 4,000 rounds of ammunition. All the weapons were new and of British manufacture.
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