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CHINA
SUNDAY WAR BULLETIN
ATMAIL
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1939 Price: 10::Ots.
GRIM LIFE OF NAZI TROOPS
Paris, To-day.
A contrast is drawn in Paris between conditions in the Maginot and Siegfried Lines.
In the Maginot Line, it is point- ed out, the French troops are well housed in huge air-conditioned underground chambers.
Electric kitchens provide them
with good hot food.
On the other hand,
Siegfried Line is hard.
life
DAMP AND BAD AIR
the
Once the steel doors of the small concrete shelters are closed, the Ger- man soldiers have to put
with up dampness and bad air, and have to get their food from outside.
With the French artillery pound. Ing their lines of communication, they are penned in damp, cold block- houses, with little food on fresh air.Router.
GERMAN PRISONERS
COMPLAINING
Paris, To-day, German prisoners captured by the French speak freely about the bad conditions in the Siegfried Line stating that the health of the defenders is serlously impaired by the recent cold damp weather.
Conditions in the small concrete blockhouses holding the Siegfried Line defenders are apparently very hard as there is no adequate provision for ventilation once the heavily armoured doors are closed.
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In some cases there is enough room to fire and when a prolonged attack has prevented the men from going outalde, they have to sleep practically standing up. At the same time, damp from the outside penetrates into the Line easily and drips down the walls.
Supplies of food have to be brought from the outside, probably under fire, so that during a prolonged attack with heavy artillery fire' on the lines of communications, the men will be penned in damp cold blockhouses without food, sleep or sufficient air.- Reuter.
THE LONDON MONEY MARKET
London, To-day. Supplies of credit remain ample for all borrowers' re- quirements throughout the week with outside quarters charging no more than 22 per cent, for short term commodation;
FOR THE THIRD TIME OF ASKING
London, To-day:
The German High, Command yesterday clalmed, for the third time this week, that the cam». paign in Poland is finished.
The Nazis say that sections of the Polish army which are still fighting at Warsaw, Modlin and In the Hole Peninsula are in a "hopeless position.”—Reuter.
NOW THERE WILL BE WAR!
HITLER ROBBED OF HIS COFFEE!
London, To-day." The effects of the tish blockade have now been brought home to
Hitler himself.
GERMAN SHOCK ATTACKS ON SAAR BATTLE-FRONT
"NAILED TO THE GROUND"
Paris, To-day.
A STRIKING FEATURE of the new German activity on the western front is that it is taking place on what so far has been a relatively quiet sector. There have been a number of local actions on the whole front between the Saar and the Rhine. The German attacks have been preceded by unusual- ly heavy artillery bombardment, and by preli- minary assaults by larger patrols than usual.
The French say the German at-que was even briefer than usual, and tacks have shown considerable ten-, merely stated that local artillery ac- acity, though each wave of one bat- tion continues and that elements are tallon's attack was forced to retire in contact.--Reuter. in the face of a withering fire from French heavy guns and machine- guns. Reuter.
HITLER AGAIN SAID IN SAAR AREA
Paris, Today.
T
POLES AND SOVIET TROOPS
IN STREET FIGHTING.
London, To-day.
A Nazi communique announces fur.. ther withdrawals of German troops in Poland in the face of the Soviet ad- vance, though it is careful to em-
sure on Germany..
The Naz! news agency reports. violent street fighting In Grodno between Polish and Soviet troops. --Reuter.
The reported presence of phasise that there is no Soviet pres- Hitler and the German Com- |mander - in - Chief, General von Brauchitsch, on the Western Front, coincided with a marked renewal of~ activity.
Over the whole Front, especially in the vast zone between Saar and the Rhine, a number of local actions have begun.
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These included the activities of German patrols In greater force than usual and unusually heavy artillery bombardments of the Fronch positions.
At one point, 'a regular attack was
Bri-made, not by one company as on pre- vous occasions, but a whole batta- lion, attacking in waves.
NAILED TO GROUND
HITLER VISITING SAAR NEXT WEEK, SAYS D.N.B.
The Nazi Hitler may next week..
London, To-day. news agency says that vialt the western front
The agency had previously reported Hitler, as being in Poland, and denied reports that he was in the Saar- bruecken sector. Reuter.
ESTHONIAN VISIT TO MOSCOW
The attack is stated to have shown considerable tenacity but failed com- pletely before the French defence. As each with withering fire from big French 1STER IS MAKING A VISIT TO were guns and machine guns and
each | MOSCOW.
The British contraband control yesterday seized 20 bags of coffee, amounting to over two tons, which consigned to Hitler from Arabia.
The German people have for some time been deprived of real coffee.
The consignment for Hit- ler was despatched on August 12, and it seems that even then the Nazi leader was pre- paring for a long war !-Reu- ter.
ANOTHER FINNISH SHIP SUNK
London, To-day. Another Finnish steamer has been sunk by a Nazi sub- marine,
This second sinking took place only a few hours after the Finnish Minis-`
ter in Berlin had been instructed to protest against the first sinking of a Finnish ship which was on her way to England with a cargo of wood ac- | pulp.
The crews of both vessels are safe. Yesterday's, "Treasury fender was-Reuter. notable for the dalline!th the average
Stockholm, To-day. rate to around 3-5/16 per cent, which The Finnish steamer Walma was is attributed to the keen desire on the attacked and sunk by two German part of the discount market to?fi¿quire | submarine') a few miles to the south- a lurgo allòfment of the valuable end- | west of Hallon Lighthouse, off the df-December bille
ter.
Wall Street closed irregulars.
west coast of Sweden.
The crew of 18 was rescued.-—Reu-
successive
of. German wave troops started to advance it was met
wave was checked at the very outset, and, as one account put it, was "nail- ed to the ground."-Reuter.
H.Q. CALLS IT "QUIET"
Paris, To-day. Last night's French war, communi-
TALLIN, TO-DAY. THE ESTHONIAN FOREIGN MIN-
COW
One report says he will negotiate a new commercial treaty with the So- viet, but it is also suggested in Mos-
the that he is visiting
Soviet capital in connection with the Soviet allegation that Esthonia connived at the recent
internal escape of the Polish submarine.-Reuter.
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