“WAR ONLY STARTING”

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21448, 12 September 1939, Page 7

“WAR ONLY STARTING”

United Pres*» Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright Independent Cable Service (Received September 12. 12.26 a.m.) LONDON, September 11. The correspon lent of the “Daily Express” on the Rumanian-Polish frontier, describing how members of the Government, foreign embassies and newspapermen evacuated Warsaw, says L was a long and nasty trip from Warsaw across bridges crammed with small, skinny horses pulling low-wheeled carts piled up with bundles of bedding, clothing and furniture. Among them, shiny smart limousines belonging to the Government with staff officers, diplomats and officials inside. ade for the country. “All along the road I saw preparations for resistance. More troops moved into positions, guns lumbered down the road and in some places where they were near the front bridges wre prepared for mining. Down the Ukraine road I found a great number of refugees, mostly Jews, fleeing from Silesia, Katowice. Cracow, Locz and other towns which have fallen to the Germans. Down south the Germans and not finding progress so easy owing to the difficulty o f the terrain. So far as Poland is concerned I can say that the war really is only starting now. The fronts are : traightening out and getting to the line the Polish general staff previously laid down as the main line of resistance." Jouma* sts who travelled more t' an 450 miles from Warsaw were constantly r.icnac i by German bombers.