Second Edition HEAVY SHELLING

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 307, 25 September 1939, Page 11

Second Edition HEAVY SHELLING

Beleaguered Warsaw SPIRIT UNIMPAIRED A message received from Warsaw, and broadcast early this morning, stated that the last 24 hours had been the most dreadful of the siege. At least 100 guns were shelling the city. Despite the bombardment many citizens ventured out to church on Sunday morning and numbers of them weA killed or wounded. _ In the last 24 hours about 1000 civilians had been killed or wounded. Nevertheless the spirit of the population remained unimpaired.—By Radio. A Berlin communique claims that the total Polish captures are 450,000 men and 1200 guns. SOVIET DIPLOMACY Activity In Balkans And Baltic (Received September 25, 12.35 a.m.) LONDON, September 24. The Budapest correspondent of the British Associated Press says that Russia and Hungary have re-establish-ed diplomatic relations, which were broken off in January when Hungary agreed to sign the anti-Comintern Pact. The Sofia correspondent of the same agency states that Bulgaria will conclude a pact with Russia, whereby Russia will take virtually all her exports of which two-thirds hitherto have gone to Germany. The Rome radio states that a RussoEstonian commercial pact has been signed in Moscow. ASSISTANCE PACT Reported Russo-Turkish Agreement LONDON, September 23. The Istanbul correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says that authoritative sources express the opinion that the Foreign Minister, M. Saracoglu, concluded a mutual assistance pact with Russia which, however, is a complement of Turkey’s agreements with Britain and France and might even be capable of being used to achieve a reconciliation between Russia and Britain and France. PATROL VESSEL HITS MINE Casualties Among British Crew (Received September 24, 7.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 23. The Secretary of the Admiralty today announced that H.M.S. Kittiwake struck a mine in the English Channel. It is regretted that five members of the crew are missing and believed to have been killed, and two others are in hospital. The ship has returned to harbour for repairs. H.M.S. Kittiwake is a patrol vessel of 530 tons, mounting one four-inch gun and eight light guns. She is a vessel of the First Anti-submarine Flotilla and was commissioned at Chatham in April, 1937. INDOMITABLE SPIRIT British Merchant Seamen Undeterred (British Official Wireless.) . (Received September’24, 9.45 p.m.) LONDON, September 23. Among stories illustrating the quiet courage and indomitable spirit of British merchant seamen are the remarks of a British Missions to Seamen chaplain, who writes: “So far from submarine warfare deterring our sea/ men from going to saa, it has had the opposite effect Their one desire when they get ashore after being torpedoed is to get another ship. Their spirit is the same as in 1914-18.” The names of 512 officers and men of H.M.S. Courageous who are believed to have lost their lives on war service were published by the Admiralty tonight. They include her commander, Captain Makeig Jones, who went down with his ship. The First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Winston Churchill, has received a telegram from the French Minister, of Marine expressing admiration for the magnificent spirit of the men of H.M.S. Courageous ami sympathy for the relations of those drowned. Mr. Churchill replied on behalf of the officers and men of the Royal Navy. BREMEN REPORTED TO BE SAFE Journey Under Camouflage To Soviet Port NEW ORLEANS, September 22. Tlie German Consul-General. Baron Edgar von Speigal, said that the German liner Bremen is safe at Murmansk. After camouflaging at sea she crossed the North Atlantic and reached the Arctic through Denmark Strait. The Soviet is examining the legal aspects created by her presence at Murmansk. Murmansk is on the east coast of Lapland. about 50 miles from the Swedish border. Denmark Strait is between Greenland and Iceland.