NEWS BY RADIO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1939, Page 6

NEWS BY RADIO

MURDEROUS SHELLING OF WARSAW SPIRIT OF DEFENDERS UNBROKEN. EVENTS ON WESTERN FRONT. The following Daventry reports have been rebroadcast by the New Zealand National stations: — A. report from Warsaw states that the city experienced a terrible German artillery bombardment for 24 hours. Although there were 1000 civilian casualties, the spirit of the defenders remains unbroken. A later Polish military communique from Warsaw states that German artillery and aircraft continue a terrible bombardment and not one house in all Warsaw is not undamaged. A French communique reports local activities on several sectors of the Western front. The activity of enemy artillery has been particularly violent near (he Saar River. Fighter planes have successfully fought several air battles with German machines. The Germans have made numerous attacks east of the Saar River and all have been repulsed. The French are said to have captured a hill of considerable strategic importance and to be using a siege gun of a new type which can be moved quickly by road. It is stated that the concrete of the German fortifications will suffer badly under fire from these guns, though a prolonged effort will be necessary before a large scale advance can be made by mechanised forces.

An explosion is reported in a coal mine near Essen. Eight were killed and 14 seriously injured while nine others, whose escape was cut off, are believed to be dead.

Reports received in Brussels from Berlin state that black-out regulations are being still more strictly enforced in Western Germany.

The State funeral of M Calinescu, late Prime Minister of Rumania, was attended by huge crowds in Bucharest. A Swedish cargo boat of 1500 tons has been sunk by a German submarine on the southern coast of Norway. The crew took* to the boats and landed on the coast. The Finnish Minister in Berlin has officially protested against the sinking of two Finnish vessels by German submarines.