INTENSE BOMBING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1939, Page 6

INTENSE BOMBING

ATTACKS ON MANY CITIES NOT EVEN CEMETERY SPARED. PEASANTS MACHINE-GUNNED. (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, September 5. The Polish news agency reports an intense bombing of Tczew, Thorn (or Torun), Katowice, Bydgoszcz, Cracow and Warsaw. The planes dived and machine-gunned peasants on farms and roadsides. They dropped 2001 b bombs in a cemetery in a suburb of Warsaw, where villagers were burying the victims of Friday’s air raids. VISTULA CROSSED ADVANCE BY GERMAN FORCES. (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, September 5. Four Polish bombers, two fighters and nine other types were brought down at Lodz. German forces, crossing the Vistula at Gurdziadz, penetrated twelve miles south-eastwards. There is no news of German casualties. Notification to relatives is not yet permitted. BERLIN BOMBED POLISH PLANES RETURN WITHOUT LOSS. (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) PARIS September 5. A Polish radio announces that Polish planes bombed Berlin'and returned to Warsaw without loss., TOWNS CAPTURED RED CROSS TRAIN DESTROYED. (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 5. The United Press Berlin correspondent says it is officially stated that the Germans have captured Katowice, an important industrial centre in Poland. From Paris, the Polish Telegraphic Agency reported that fifty German air raiders destroyed a Red Cross train near Szydlowicz. MILITARY SERVICE EXEMPTION OF POLITICIANS REPEALED. DECREE ISSUED IN FRANCE. (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) PARIS. September 5. A decree repeals the exemption of members o£-t>iho Senate and of the Chamber of Deputies for military service. BOMBING OF ESBJERG FURTHER CASUALTIES FEARED. VICTIMS BURIED UNDER DEBRIS. (Received This Day. 11.50 a.m.) LONDON. September 5. The British Uhited Press Copenhagen correspondent says five bombs were dropped on Esbjerg. In addition to two killed and ten wounded it is feared others are under the debris.