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World's Most Dramatic And Greatest Annihilation of A Modern Army
POLAND'S ARMY OF 1,500,000 MEN FACES DISASTER OR
OR SURRENDER
Retreat Blocked In
Every
Direction
By WEBB MILLER
"United Press" War Correspondent
LONDON, Sept. 19. (UP).-Caught in a gigantic
vice whose
jaws
are
rapidly squeezing all Polish resistance in its inexorable grip, the Polish armies, as an effective force, have disintegrated.
Within the next 48 hours, the world will witness history's most dramatic and greatest annihilation of a modern army.
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Lithuania Orders Mobilisation BALTIC STATES FEAR RUSSIANS
LONDON, Sept. 18 (Reuter).--It is officially under- stood that the Lithuanian Government has decided to undertake partial mobilisation in order to strengthen their forces on the Polish | frontier.
Official circtes explain that CANNOT BE
this step is taken in pursuance of the Lithuanian policy of neutrality for the purposes of disarming and interning any units of the Polish army which may attempt to retreat into Lithuania,
Baltic Fears
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
With hundreds of thousands of Russians sweeping across the eastern frontier of the doomed country on a five hundred mile front and everywhere WESTERN FRONTIER OF POLAND, with adjacent areas and main towns. Red froops to advance into Poland, meeting the easterly onrush of well over a million Germans, the fate of 1,500,000 soldiers comprising the Polish Army, is now finally seated.
TOKYO, Sept. 19 (Domel)-Soviet military authorities who have ordered
are planning to drive on Estonia and Finland, according ไ 11 London despatch to the "Japan Times", 99 The Soviet Government has detail- ed its troops in that direction and also begun
transportation of munitions, the report says.
Retreat is cut off from all directions. The Polish troops can neither SIRENS SHRIEK "Warning"
escape into Rumania nor retreat towards the Baltic States. They are en- tirely surrounded by hostile forces. FATE FINALLY SEALED
Except for sporadic resistance here and there with their backs
IN CALCUTTA But Imperial Airways Was The "Raider"
CALCUTTA, Sept. 18 (Reu-
to the wall, the military force of Poland can be counted as extinguished. ter). The reported approach
Sea And Air War Claims
TWO ALTERATIVES
Two alternatives are left.
Either Poland's army of 1,500,000 men can] surrender on a titanic scale unparalleled in history, or they can become disjoined guerillas, without bases or supplies, facing certain annihi- lation.
While the Allies are trying to put the best face possible on the Russian invasion, there is not the slightest doubt but that the developments this week have caused very deep anxiety.
Eire Steamer Deliberately Sunk LONDON, Sept. 18 (Reuter). Further details EXISTENCE AT STAKE regarding the loss of
the
The advance, of the Red Army into Poland has left!
steamer Inverliffey on Sep-only the slightest hope for Poland's national existence in the future on the basis constituted by the Treaty of
tember 11 discloses that the ship was flying the flag of
the Irish Free State and was registered in Dublin.
Coming out of the fog, the Master of the Inverlifey sighted
sunk,
Versailles.
Even though Nazism may be eventually smashed,
of an unidentified acroplane. from the Bay of Bengal caused the air raid alarm to be sounded in Calcutta at 2.30 p.m. to-day. R.A.F. planes which went up a survey flight returned without finding anything.
on
It is stated that the alarm was caused by the failure to identify an Imperial Airway plane which landed shortly afterwards.
A second alarm was given at 3.38 pm, owing the approach of an R.A.F. plane flying too high to be identified.
The all-clear sounded at 4.22,
ALL QUIET
IN WEST
Britain and France will hardly go to war afterwards Sporadic Rifle Fire
clare that Us FI
Only Activity
To U.S.
Outburst By
Tokyo Paper
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
TOKYO," Sept. 10 (Domei)-
Since it is generally belleved that the Soviet Union intends to inke positive action against Estonia, which will provide a strategiè outpost to Leningrad, grave concern is being felt over the future action of the Soviet Union in the Baltic Sea.
Russo-German Communique MOSCOW, Sept. 18 (Reuter).-A German-Soviet communique states:
In order to forestall unfounded
the
JUSTIFIED
Britain's Stand In
New Situation LONDON, Sept. 18 (Reuter). -An authoritative statement declares that the Soviet attack on Poland cannot be justified by the Soviet arguments.
The Implications are not yet ap. parent, but nothing that has occurred has made any difference .. to British determination to fulfil its obligations to Poland, and to prosecute the war with all its energy unti the object achtered.
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New Considerations PARIS, Sept. 10 (Reuter), -Faced with new considerations arising from the Soviets invaston of Poland, the British and French governments maintained close contact to-day.
Observers here believe no rádical changes in Anglo-French poilcy are expected for-the moment, at least- A warning that the l'acific rumours of every description regard
until full reports from envoys in been Ocean which, true to its name, jing the tast of the Soviet and
Moscow have
received and extensively examined. has
Poland, never witnessed a war, nan Troups acting in
Whatever the consequences of the will be turned into b thentre of│9.
U.S.S.R., and
German governments Soviets action, opinion remains firm that the actions declare
of these battle unless the United States
that the situation does not affect the troops is to pursue no contrary alm amends her attitude towards to the interests of either country or position of the two democracies, and Japan, is voiced by the of contradicting the spirit and letter that nothing less than a "total victory "Kokumin Shimbun."
of the non-aggression pact concluded can be considered." between them. The paper claims that Japan has; "On the contrary, the task of the the past troops i to re-establish in Poland relations be-peace and order disrupted by the collapse of the Polish State, and to
made strenuous efforts in two years to better tween Japan and America.
**In so doing, Japan has been assist the Polish population in re- prompted by a desire not to injure constructing the conditions of their
state of existence." the feelings of the American people who supplied Japan with goods," the paper avers.
Military Action
nɩcessary
U.S. Concern WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, (Reuter) Mr.
Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, told a press conference to-day that the United States Government
PLEASE To Turn Pago 9.
Colony's Part Applauded
Envoys Asks For Passports KUTY (Polish-Rumanian border), Sept. 18 (Reuter)-A Polish Gov- ernment communique says that the PLEASE Turn To Pago 2.
LATEST
438 SURVIVORS
LONDON, Sept. 19 (UP)—The Ad-
survivors of the
The United States is the only Power capable of taking any military action in the Far East. Japon does not want to antagonize her, "because she has no such political interests as: may jeopardize the construction of a new order in East Asia," the paper to re-construct the Poland of the Versailles Treaty.
asserts. a submarine, which fired seven
U.S. Prosauro rounds, giving the Inverliffey no Desperation Of Refugees blocked the roads for miles from the
"The United States, however, is alternative but to stop.
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" frontier to Cernauti.
PARIS, Sept. 18 (Reuter)-obsessed with the preoccupied idea Obeying the submarine's orders, KOVNO, Sept. 19 (UP).—
Warsaw Is Doomed Apart from sporadic bursts of that Japan is an aggressor, picturing "British Wireless" And the Inverliffey's Master went aboard Desperation amounting almost BERLIN, Sept. 18 (Reuter)-Arisle and machine gun fire and a distorted version of Japan's actions. the submarine with his papers, where to panic prevails among the war communique broadcast to-day de- artillery exchanges, the Western brought pressure to bear upon Japan The United States recently
Hongkong upon the U-Boat commander inform-
negotiator from Front has been relatively quiet and Britain, In connection with the Wireless)Interest in the fact it contains 438 names. ed him that the Inverliffey would be populace and refugees in Vilna
not arrived, military for the past 24 hours, Warsaw has
LONDON, Sept. 18 (Britishmiralty has issued the first list of as the Red Army's vanguard ap-action against Warsaw
Courageous. The will begin
Anglo-Japanese parleys in Tokyo for The Disater protested, pointing proaches the former Lithuanian to-day.
The Germans are still bringing up a settlement of the Tientsin dispute. that a thriving branch of the The complement of the Courageous to the Free State flag and the city.
The communique also announces large relaforcements of troops and by denouncing the 1011 Treaty of British Red Cross unit has been was 1,200. Dublin registry, but the German Birthplace of Marshal Pilsudski,
that German troops occupied the planes from Poland, and are making Commerce and Navigation.
established as one of Hongkong's commander took no notice and founder of modern Poland, Vilna was town of Drohoboz "the capture of strategic withdrawals to straighten "Following the outbreak of the first efforts in the support of ordered the crew to abandon the seized from Lithuania by the Poles, which has brought Poland's most their line, evacuating and blowing up, European war, the United States now Great Britain at war, is supple-
wells" into Germanța Now, as the Red Army approaches, important oll which struck the Inverliffey amid-tion. The District Governor has de-
Polish authority has ceased to func-hands."
Poland's Collapse ships and the vessel was quickly ablaze from stern to stern.
parted for an unknown destination,
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" fried Line to put up a more affective "Now America is reported to be The American tanker R. G. Stewart The newly-opened Lithuanian Con-
BERLIN, Sept. 18 (UP)-With the curtain barrage, or a line of shells planning to exert economic pressure rescued the merchantmen's brew sulate General is
mission toter German High Command reporting bursting continuously in the face of against Japan by banning export of crowds seeking permission to enter from open boats.
Lithuania.
the complete collapse at Polish arme, advancing troops.
goods to Japan." ed resistance and with the German- Many prominent Polish
French troops have now gained ́ ́n citizens and notable
Soviet troops about 30 miles apart, footing in the Forest of Blonwald,
take them to sanctuary. among those seeking visas which will the German press has published an cast of Vissembourg at the eastern
inspired statement that the Russian end of the Rhine-Moselle front. and German Governments will parti- The forest stretcher 15 miles be the United States maintains a big disclosing the existence tween Wissambourg, and the Rhine feet in the Pacific and also on the re-definition of Poland's and bars entrance to the narrow plain recent dispatch of an aircraft carrier to Manila, the paper declares that s of Alsace north of Wiksbourg.
neither Japan nor the United States wants war.
zip.
The submarine fired a torpedo
Won't Sail Ships Under Eiro Flag
Are
officials included
LONDON, Sept. 18 (Reuter) Because their Crews refuse to sail
But Lithuania has no space for the under the Elre flag, the Irish mall large numbers who seek refuge in her of a tion ship Cambria and two cargo ships territory and permits are being held up at Holyhead.
The crows allege that under the frontier are being granted only in a
Eire flag their wives would not be few exceptional cases.
entitled to receive compensation for
to cross
Flight To Rumania
the
of smali villoges.
poses as the guardian of the old abservers believe that the crder in East Asia after the British mented by the fact that it is re- object of the withdrawals is to enable retreat from the Far East.
ceiving widespread and generous German srillery defending the Slog-
help from Chinese in Hongkong, and from China herself.
On this leland, Britain's only crown colony in the China Sens, there are 45 Chinese to every, European re {sident.
"Resoluto Action". Voleing concern on the report that
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Further Late ̈ ̈ Navra
DUKE OF WINDSOR TO JOIN BRITISH FORCES
The statement says that the Gov-X is considered bere that the ernments have agreed that the Polish French hare new reached the latit, the Germans feel DRY ONLA State, since its creation, has lacked loss of life or injury in the event of SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" the natural conditions of Statehood; sunable to sede any more ground. the boats being sunk.
CERNAUTI, Sept. 18 (UP)-Walle secondly, that It collapsed through talked a Cambria crew new masses of refugees from Poland own incompetence; thirdly, that Gore PARIS Sep 10, CRouter)The in casar crisis arises from the A member of the
Day Of Calm salde We are not scared to move started to cross the border at dawn many and Russl" must reorginke the ships across All we ask is that this morning, thousands of other re- various nationalities in Poland by crisis in Poland precipitated by the United States persistence in oppres- we sall under the British fag.” fugees on the Rumanian side of the the "creation of corporate bodies of entry of Soviet troops Into Pollah sing Japan, who will never. wwarve "The L.M.S., is arranging to trans-border spent the night in cars and the proud was four in1998 that as the territory, coincides with day of from the construction of a new order
PLEASE Tum To Page 2. covered and uncovered wagons which S PÍTÁSI Turm To Part 2. BE PLEASE TO Tum Page 9.--in
in Earl Asia,! the paper concludia. September 8.
"It is easily imaginable, however,
LONDON, Sept. 18 (Routar)/--The War Ollico that Japan will be obliged to take resolute action for the purpose of that the Duke of Windsor will shortly proceed to take: safeguarding her right, to existence appointment abroad, b
So that he may serve in this capacity, the King has per the Duke to relingulah temporarily the rank of Fald karlane British Army, and to assume that of Major-General with on