BOMBING OF WARSAW.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 276, 4 September 1939, Page 6

BOMBING OF WARSAW.

SIX RAIDS ON SATURDAY. OTHER- CITIES ATTACKED. LONDON, September 2.

A Polish official telegram says that tho Germans bombed Warsaw six times to-day. The Polish Embassy in London states that Germany stands as a wanton aggressor, and reiterates that Germans are bombing unfortified towns, with many civilian victims, while there is not a single case of Polish violation of the frontier. Last night, the statement adds, Germans bombed a train evacuating women and children from Warsaw. Many were killed and wounded. They also bombed other cities at 5.20 a.m., including Puclc, Radom, Modlin, Pultusk, Mobrvn, Warsaw, and Krakow. The raids arc extending to cities in central Poland. The Polish evacuation train was bombed GO miles from Warsaw. Most of tho passengers were killed or wounded. Aeroplanes bombed and then machine-gunned the wreckage the packed train. Brief reports reaching London early this morning confirm the continuance of air attacks all clay and, night on Warsaw and other Polish towns. The Polish Embassy in Paris announced that the famous slirino of Czestochwa, the counterpart of that at Lourdes, was set on fire after a German air raid. It contained no military objective. The Warsaw correspondent of the Associated Press- of America says that eye witnesses state that 21 were killed and 30 wounded when a German bomb struck the workers' quarter. Bombs already dropped on Warsaw total 120. Thirty were killed and 58 wounded at Lublin, The Berlin correspondent of tho exchange says that authoritative quarters claim that the Germans captured Dirschau, south from Danzig, and Przasnysz. The fleet shelled Hel, and aeroplanes bombed Gdynia. ■ Westerplatte guards at the entrance to Danzig harbour and other sources, describing the late afternoon air raids on Warsaw, record that the damage was not serious. The air raid precautions were most effective. It is claimed that 16 German machines were brought down at Warsaw, and other towns. It is admitted that there were numerous deaths of women and children in Warsaw. The Warsaw correspondent of the Associated Press of America says that air-raid sirens caused residents to scurry for shelter five times during the day, but German aeroplanes appeared over the city only once, in the afternoon. They were driven off by antiaircraft guns. The Warsaw correspondent of tho Havas agency reports that there is little change in the general situation. There was fighting all night and morning. The Poles claim to have brought down 33 aeroplanese, including 20 bombers, and also to have put 16 tanks out of action and taken 500 prisoners. The Warsaw correspondent of the Associated IPress of America describes inspecting .the ruins of the bombed apartment house in the workers’ quarter. Twenty-one were killed and 30 injured among those so far re-covered fyom the debris. ■ The latest, report from Warsaw states that so- far there have been 94 German air.raids. The hospital at Wielun was bombed. The Exchange News Agency reports that the bridge- at Ratibor was blown up. The Germans constructed an emergency bridge, and entered near Ratibor. It is -also claimed that the cjruiser Schleswig bombarded and captured the Westerplatte- munitions depot.