NOT IN VAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 71, 21 September 1939, Page 10

NOT IN VAIN

Though the Nazi armies invading Poland from the north and the south have met along a line to the east of Warsaw, and at different points on that line have made contact with the Russians advancing from the east, the resistance of the Poles has not everywhere been overcome. Surviving Polish forces in several areas are still fighting fiercely against overwhelming odds and inflicting losses proportionately as heavy as they are suffering. The capital, Warsaw, is holding out under a rain of fire from the besiegers which is reducing the city to smoking ruins from which the heroic defenders still breathe defiance in their broadcasts. ;So slso at Lemberg in the south, a city famous in the Great War for its stout defence, the Poles are resisting to the last. The heroic struggle lof the Poles to defend the last vestiges of their territory from the invaders will not be forgotten in the final reckoning. "The Times" speaks for the world when it says of the cardinal war aims of the British and Fi'ench:

The foremost place will be given to the liberation of Poland, which lies under the heel of her two invaders, having first won immortal glory. . . .

Geography -has made it quite impossible for the Governments of Britain

and France to prevent the overthrow of Poland, just as gains for Germany by a breach of faith made it impossible to prevent the overrunning of Belgium twenty-five years ago. ' As the wheel revolved then, by the same massive process will it come to a full circle again.

The conscience of the world will not permit the supreme sacrifice of the Poles in defence of their land and liberties to pass in vain.