WARSAW'S PLIGHT
MOST ISOLATED IN WORLD
(Rec. 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 30. A year after its liberation Poland s capital is still the most isolated in the world, says the Warsaw correspondent of the Associated Press- Embassies have been without aeroplane contact with other countries for as much as three weeks at a time. Ihere is no direct radio contact either eastward or westward and only a single line telegraph system is operating to Moscow, Prague and Budapest, on which the average transmission timci is 12 days. , J Diplomats and Press correspondents are obliged to depend on aircraft for mail. Persistent fog in Warsaw often makes landings and take-offs impossible- Government officials are hoper ful that there will be normal communications from January. 1 when an American radio corporation expects to put Poland in direct contact, with London and New York, having replaced the radio facilities destroyed by the Nazis. j
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXVI, Issue 27, 31 December 1945, Page 5
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