IN POLAND

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1939, Page 5

IN POLAND

U.S.A. AMBASSADOR REPORT TERRORIST METHODS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, Sep. 25.. The Paris correspondent of “The "l'' Tilnes” says: Mr Biddle, American T Ambassador to Poland, has arrived here. He declared that, in the latter stages of the struggle in Poland, the whole action ~of ,t|ie German, aircraft, of which lie estimated five thousand machines " were employed, was designed to terrorise the civilian population of Poland. . firstly, he said, the German ’planes concentrated . on the bom-bing l of aerodromes, aircraft factories, military camps. Afterwards, they swept pver the whole country, working in two shifts. fit seemed impossible to get away ' from them,” he said. My own car was bombed fifteen times, and was ma-chine-gunned ■ four times, en route to the Roumanian frontier, despite the that prominently painted on the roof were the letters “U.S.A.” I was forced to take refuge in a.f roadsiae ditch.” GERMAN ALLEGATION. BERLIN, Sep. 25. A German wireless . broadcast in the Polish, French and Russian languages stated: “Foreign diplomats, after, their return from, Warsaw, reported that armed individuals had detained sixty members, of tljie' Soviet Embassy, l including twenty-two women and twenty-three children, in cellars iu the badly damaged Soviet Embassy:.. The German ' Commander-ip-Chief offers the -Warsaw Commander-inr Chief an opportunity of giving these or any other foreign diplomats in arsaw until noon to-day, September 25, an unhampered passage through the German lines. TREATMENT IN ROTJMANIA. . LONDON, Sep. 25. " The “Daily Telegraph’s” Bucharest correspondent says > that the Polish Ambassador received an unsatisfact-' ofv r answer, when he inquired as to the Government’s intentions in regara to tile'refugee Polish Government, ihe Poles have abandoned hope of re-estab-lishing a Government in France. Germany's constantly pressing Roumama and repeatedly complaining of Polish uniformed officers appearing in public. Sir Howard Kennard is postponing his departure, pending a decision about, the Polish Government. , A GERMAN REPORT. , LONDON, Sep. 25. “The Times” Rotterdam correspond-^ 3 ent states that a Genuan High Comjr rriand, in a communique, announced . that the Germans crossed the Vistula River between Modlin and WarsaAv, thus cutting off Modlin from the capital. Modlin is a fortress 15 miles north of Warsaw. The communique adds: General Bortnowski, Commander of the Polish Corridor Army, surrendered with his staff in the woods on the East Prussian border.

red army advance.. MOSCOW, Sep. 25. A Soviet communique records a general advance fey the Bed Army, with] the capture of eleven thousand prisoners, and several towns. This advance brings the Soviet troops within fortymiles of the demarcation line. The Red Army is now in the heart of the Polish oilfields, according to a communique. • • The report adds: In the course of a further advance of the Red Army towards the demarcation line, . there ,has been a liquidation of Polish armies. Ten thousand Polish soldiers were tak' en prisoners south of Brest-Litovsk. GERMAN REPORTS. (Received this day at 9 a.m.) BERLIN, September 25 The “Volkisfiher Beobachter” says Russia and Germany will never slaughter each other for the sake of Britain. The agreement settles the Russian-German , relations for all time,. The High Command, in a comm uni;, qud, says the movement of ; , German troops toward the demarcation line continues without friction anu perfect unison with Russian units. . Diving bombers repeatedly attacked military objectives. .. Warsaw has been isolated. Small skirmishes have taken place on the Western , Front. WARSAW'S PLIGHT (Received this day at 10.50 a.m:).r' WARSAW, Sept. ‘25. An .official defence communique stat 5 not a’single building in Warsaw is intact. Most houses and public building, are in ruins. About one hundred fires have broken out. There were 7000 civilian casualties. Nevertheless the morale of the army and people is excellent,. The defence continues