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September 27, 1939.
OVERNIGHT WARSAW HOLDS OUT WHILE NEWS PAGE FRENCH ADVANCE ON
Rumanian Fears
LONDON, Sept. 26 (UP), The "Exchange Telegraph's" Bucharest correspondent states fears of a Soviet coup are expressed in responsible circles. It is stated that 100 Soviet divisions are advancing, one on the Bessarabian border.
Air raid precautionary mea- sures were put into operation in Bucharest last night.
THE GRAND
DUCHY
The Russians and the Germans continue to occupy new territory in Poland in what is said to be in accordance with their mutual plans. The Russians have reached the frontier of Estonin and it is reported that they have closed the Rumanian Frontier.
The German troups have not eased their bombardment of Warsaw which is now running short of ammunition. The Poles, however, repelled another Nuzi assault by hand-to-hand fighting. President Moncleki of Poland, who fled Into Rumasin, has been interned together with General Smigly-Rydz. It is reported that the President is contemplating resignation in favour of a Pole in France for the purpose of establishing a new Polish government on French soll.
In Nazi occupied Poland the Jews are being severely dealt with. They have heen refused food and all the shops where the Jews have fled have been taken over by the Germans.
On the Western Front the French artery pounded the German lines and made advances in the Saar sector. The Germans on the other hand claim to be attacking 'n French town from three sides.
Budapest, Sept. 28.
An unconfirmed report states that the Germans blew up the Drohobycz❘ of wells before handing over to the
Luxemburg Relies Ruslans--fleuter Special.
On Neutrality
Luxemburg, Sept. 20. Luxemburg relies on the bel- ligerent Powers to maintain treaties and keep their renewed verbal na surances to respect the Grami Ducky's neutrality, stated the Minis- ter of State, M. Pierre Dupong, 1 an interview,
Red Army's Advanco
Moscow, Sept. 26.
SAAR
Latest News From China War Front
Chungshan Quiet But Changsha Threatened
CHUNGSHAN, Sept. 26.-The Chinese militia are still holding Cheungkapin, Taiwan, Siuyan and Laichuen, north-east of Shekki, which were scenes of fighting last dtatta, which was broadcast on the week. These fronts were very quiet yesterday with the Italian wireless, and stated that the exception of some minor Chinese raida against the should bear in mind that even the Japanese remaining at Tawangtau and Sanchow. As a collapse of the German Western wall precaution most of the Japanese there return to their war. will probably bring the Allied arinies In contact with the stronger ships at night. German troops-Reuter.
Allied Governmenta and nallens
Artillery Active
A Red Army communique reports
Two Japanese warships remain off tslung_Alver and the Mi River in that the tronos have reached the lawns of Suvalki and Goniunda ad
Tawangtru with three at Wangmoon.north Hunan. are now ON line running Chence
fired Paris, Sept. 26. The warships at Tawanglau
The objective of the Japanese op through
Surazh. Yanov. Opalin, French and German guns have intermittently towards Cheurgkopin.pears to be Mo un the Canton- Dubraka, Podgalehiki, Unistyche been exchanging violent cannonades |
Hankow Railway, 45 miles north of Rybnik and Koztown-Renter,
on the Western Front. For the Arst
On Sunday afternoon two Japan-Changsha, While Japanese marines
planes time since the outbreak of war there fese
New over Shekki and who landed al Yingtien on the Jas been prolonged artillery action machine-gunned the Chinese pori-south-east bank of the Tungting on the stretch along the Rhine betons. No planes visited Shekki yes-Lake are pushing eastward, Japanese tween Strasbourg and frontier.
Swlesterday. Some of the traders who army units are attempting to reach to Shekki are now the town by driving down the rail- liave returned principles us that of Belgium. Hol- and which contributed eftciously inting the gains, the French have avald being bombed.
After a week spent in consolida-opening shops at night in order to way. lund and Switzerland, there is a the country's resurrection, declares moved up artillery batteries and are difference in our case since we have General Duval writing in the no Socialist Govertument.
Journal des Debats-Reuter Special. now within good range of the Sleg-
fried Line-Reuter,
"Our neutral rights will be fully respected," and M. Dupong, "While our neutrality is based on the same
"While the country hupes to escape war, thern WHI 1xe difficulties, especially economic, ones. Our steel
Forming Guerilla Bandi
Paris, Sept. 26. The bands forming in Poland are modelled on whose which Marshal Pitsudah directed in the last war
Pounded To Dust
London, Sept. 28.
the
Very stubborn resistance is being offered by the Chinese.
Kongmoon Desertion
As a result of several daring Chi- Shlubing, Kwonglung, Sept. 20.
nese strokes, some 2,000 Japanese More than 200 puppet vanguards have been stain. This figure includes German Plans Doing Made
stationed at Kongmoon have desert-over 60 Japanese officers. In ad- Industry which produced one-tenthi Despite the unrestricted warfare
Paris, Sept, 26, ed.
Other Japanese-employed Chi-dition, a number of Japanese prison- of the world's output last year and waged by de Germans in which theer te arst month, military circles ported to have mutinied because they
With the war approaching the end nese Irregulars in Sunwui are refers were taken. imported coke from Germany, ore ruthlessness of the military opera- froin Fance and ship steel from alitions has known no bounds, Warsaw foresee an early German tavasion of have not been paid for three months. parts of the world without difficulis still bruerly holding out and willSwitzerland or Holland, or both An ties, is bound to suffer."
A lot of them have surrendered to continue to hold out until there is to attack via Switzerland will give a further strength and breath in us. Jong front line of 200 kilometres,the Chinese-Central News. stated the announcer of Radio War while an attack vin Holland will saw in a broadcast to-day,
permit the German forces to skirt
Asked if the number of unemploy ed in the Grand Duchy really totalled 275,000, he replied that 2,000 was accurate.
scene
been
recovered..
Chinese counterattacks have been i lunched srith success. Trolin, sinkaitang. Stoochino and Haitang have been successively taken back.
Yinglien, sixteen miles west of the Chinese Successes
Conton-Hankow Railway, where Ja- He said that Warsaw was under-behind Beduin's first Bue defences
Shekk, Sept. 24.
panese marines landed and started a going the eleventh day of artillery and head for the heart of Flanders. M. Dupong,
Chinese successes in Tsungta and innking movement, continues to be who has a modest bombardment which had been almost The authoritative Petit Paristen Fayun were spectacular, as a Shiu-the office in the Central Post Office ceaseless since it begun. Heavy says that in addition to evacuating van report claims that the Japan-Additional Japanese marines
of bitter fighting building, said that the food situa-guns were indiscriminately contiau- Aix-In-Chapelle, which presupposes es casualties included tion in Luxemburg was much bettering to shell the city into dust. All eventual violation of Dutch neutrality, cavalrymen, 600 infantrymen and the back. Chlenchiuping, a point east of over 350 attempted to land there were thrown who now than at the outbreak of the the big bulidings bad gone one by there are three large masses of troops death of a detachment commander Yingtien, has World War. "Our agriculture is in one and my the smaller ones were, in the neighbourhood of the German with the a splendid condition, although there going the same way. All the while, Swiss frontier behind the Rhine, from Many Japanese retreated in confusion
rank uf major-general. Central News. ia a sborlage of muize for cattle continued the teagle message, land- Buste to Schaffhouse. which we have at present an exreds of bombs were falling from the plan would be to organise large scale were killed by the guerillas, who The German to Shenkong, and several officers
Advances Described portable surplus," he said. "We are air, destroying an short of fats, lard and wheat, which senle unparalleled in history. Tens Jura
killing en af operations via Neufchatel into the sniped at them.
Chungking, Sept. 28. Is mixed with home-grown produce, of thousands of civilians were dead fence in the Jure
mountains. The natural de-
Japanese troops are said to have good quality flour, also suger, suit, and wounded, but it seemed impos addition to the powerful forts con- on the Chinese side, as the Japanese Canton-Hankow railway and on the mountains, in Heavy losses were also sustained converged on the Milo Station on the spices and cocoa, M. Georges sible to kill the spirit of the people.structed there, would permit the brought into action over 200 Japan-banks of MI River which cross the Thunis, former Preniter of Belgium, The latest sign of the indomitable French to hold up the enemy advance ese bombing planes, necessitating the railway at this point and flows into is sailing for the United States dort spirit of the people came from the with ease. Is to negotiate for Belgium and women. Ready to die with their
Chinese counter-attacking only at the Tungling Lake. Luxemburg for these supplies."
Military circies hold the opinion night men folk, large squads of armed that the Germans are doing their Special.
Dr during bad weather. M. Dupong, who is in his early women were now fighting side byjulmust to discover the strength of the Afties, welcomes visitors in a quiet side with the soldiers.
French forces before and friendly manner. He concludeel
The Germans claim to have offensive. The Germans his interview by saying that he penetrated Into parts of the suburbs preoccupied with the French advance, Grand Duchy this year was celebrat-and state that they have captured the which puts certain parts of the ing its 100 years of independence southern suburbs.
ablished by the Treaty of London The Red Army claims to be still
on the conclusion of the Belgian re-advancing and state that they are volution in 1839, the exnet frontier carrying out mopping up operations of Holland, Belgium und Luxemburg in the Ukraine and in White Russia, ~~was established United Press"
U-Boat Scourge
Survivors Tell Of Experience
venturing an
are niso
French artillery-United Press. Siegfried Line under the range of
japanese Consolidating
Heavy fighting is at present going, on along the Canton-Hanitow reliway between Sintsiang and Milo at [Chungchinwan, Huangshachat and
Taolin-Reuter.
Macau, Sept. 26. An unexpected development in the
Advance Continues Japanese hostilities in Chungchan) was the sudden and unexplained
Honkow, Sept. 20, withdrawal of large numbers of the German Claim Reduced
Continuing their advance south- Invading troops, on Friday last, The ward along the Canton-Hankow Rall- London, Sept. 20. Chinese defenders on the Wang noon way in north-eastern Hunnu, Japan- Great activity continues on the respite, but the
front were given a much needed se troops this morning crossed the The Western Front, chielly confined to Tal Lum, and Siu Lum Islands, points, thereby gaining control of a Japanese appeared Ku (also known as Mi) River at two artillery duels. There have also been midway between San Clio Island and wide stretch of the south bank of the several spectacular aerial encounters the mainland of Tau Moon, close to strategie river, 75 kilometres north between Allied and German planes. Pak Chlu The Germans claim that they brought
of Changsha,
Further cust
hid
-is" stated~~ that~~~~the "work" of making the Poles Soviet-minded is going on very successfully, Soviet military authorities organised peasant corps which were going about scouting for Polish off cers who are in hiding in the forests. -Reuter Bulletin.
Envoy Returns
the erectiate
down five French planes, although On the Wongmoon front the previously they had put the number) Japanese have not withdrawn entire along the north bank of the Ku River Japanese deployed at eight. The French admi! having ly, and are in occupation of Pak Tong after a three-day forced murch in Paris, Sept. 24,
lost two machines,
Tap Hill, where about 200 Japanese which they advanced daily an average The French Ambassador to Poland)
The Germans dropped pamphlets! troops and a similor number of la- of 40 kilometres over who has just returned to Paris, in an which read: One Fubrer, one people, bourers brought by
a 100-klio- interview said that the Polish army one Relch. The French replied with: from elsewhere in China, are bugil troops consisting of 10 divisions of the Japanese meires front, holly pursuing Chinese was beaten because of the crushing Liberty, Equality. Fraternity engaged
of barbed the Central Army supported by Sze- wire barricades and other works. chwan troops. Fak Tong Tap Hill occupies a very strategie position, overlooking the foreshore of Wangmoon Channel, and reveals 8,200 dead abandoned, while It is possible that the Japanese are guns of various types, 93 machine- fortifying the place with the objects, 750 rifles, and 350,000 rounds of covering future landings at the rifle ammunition were seized on
the north front aloge, spot.
superiority of Germany 'the air and also the relentless manner in which they used their 'Fastly superior mechanised forces.
London, Sept. 26, Survivors of the British steamer The Germans, he sold, treely used Hazelside which was sunk by a Geraerial torpedoes and boils not only man submarine to-day gave the story on military objectives but on any- of their ordeal when the ship washing they could see. The sightest attacked.
sign of anything moving was suf- ficient for the Germans to let loos They said that the ship was first all the fury of their guns and planes. shelled and then lorpedoed. The hero The shelling and bombing was ear- of the affair was the wireless opera- ried out without the slightest con- tor, who though wounded in the face, aiderations of humanitarianism or
leg and arm by shell splinters, con-even conforming to the smallest rules tinued to send messages and tiad to of warfare. be carried to the boat when the ship was abandoned.
The Ambassador pad a glowing tribute to the magnificent heroism of The captain steered a zig-zig course the Poles; who fought to the death, Where the opposing forces were
Anitely superlor fighters,
but eventually had to stop the en-.
second engineer, who had an arm
Reuter Balletin.
West Reich Strewn With Leaflets
More Excursions By The R.A.F.
A cursory check of Chinese losses
The Japanese flanking force which Meanwhile, the Chinese villagers, who have been holding out againsided on Saturday on the banks of the Japanese for so long in Chung- Turgting Lake has engaged a strong shan, have been reinforced by the Chinese force in the mountains ensi of the Hankow-Canton Railway in a arrival of Chinese irregulars from various other districts in South China which, if successful, will throw the
witiening
enveloping movement The newly arrived troops better arms and equipment than the Chinese forces into the mountains on district guards.
the Klangsi-Hunan order.--Domel.
blown off, went down to the engsa to the early defeat of the Poles was Alonday. Attacks by enemy alrer-Our Oun Correspondent.
and all the crew had
Tenghai Evacuation
passess
FOOD PROBLEM WITH GASTRITIS
For years, doctors wanted to find a food that would not ir- ritate the inflamed stomach walls of patients suffering from gas-
London, Sept. 26. The Air Ministry announces that}
Refugees are returning to thele gine and abandon the ship. The equal, he sold, he Poles were in the Royal Air Force again carried homes, in spite of the presence of
out successful reconnaissances over
Japanese warships off the coasts and Another factor which contributed western and north-west Germany on occasional visits by Japanese planes. room to carry out orders and was never seen again. Two of the life the widespread system of espionage were repulser and the British boats were smashed by the gunfire which the Germans, had set up. machines returned safely to their
go in the Wherever the Government or state bases.
Hingning, Kwangtung. Sept. 26. Captain's Jolly-boat which was so authorities moved, the spies would Last night further reconaissances Tenghat, a town on the castern) erowded that they could not use the communicate the news to the Ger- were carried out over Germany and Kwangtung coast, 12 miles north-east pars and had to bail the water out muns and the place was blasted al- leaflets dropped. All the machines Chinese yesterday after heavy ght tritis and that at the same time
landed safely-Reuter.
of Swatow, was evacuated by the,
ing-Central News,
Changsha Threat Londoni, Sept. 20. London, Sept. 26. A Minstry of Information bulletin
Hankow, Sept. 20. The first mention in the Itailan states that since the beginning of the Having covered 23 miles since Fress of the possibility of a collapse war tlie Royal Air Force has dropped Saturday the vanguards of the to- of the Slegfried Line ls contained In 18 million pamphicls in various parts panese in north-eastern Hunan to- needs quick new strength to re- a leading article in the Giornale of Germany.
with seaboots. Soon after, a British most out of existance by the German destroyer arrived and dropped i planes. Reuter Bulletin.
depth charge but it was not known; whether the submarine was sunk Reuter Bulletin.
Counter-Moasures Discussed
London, Sept 28.
up
Italy Sees Allied Success
Eighteen Million Pamphlets
would rebuild the patient's sirength. In severo cases of gas- tritis solid foods are out of the question, even liquid foods are often vomited. Yet the patient
In connection with the sinking, of the Swedish freighter Gertrud Bratt
day were within 40 miles of Chang- build his exhausted body. In The British alreraft, continues the shi.
Horlicks, doctors and nurses have by a German submarine, It is con- firmed that nineteen of the crew were which will mean an increase in the terior of the Reich visiung the north, afternoon crossed the Mi River.
bulletin, penetrated far into the in
Two units of Japanese on Monday found an ideal food. picked
by another Swedish cost by about 20 per cent. It is en- the centre as well as the Western steamer and landed safely in Norway, phasised that if the Germans con- Front, British machines had travelled which landed on the cast shore of A Japanese naval landing party This is the third neutral steamer Unue the sunk by the Germans during the past campaign t
unrestricted submarine thousands of miles aver Gorman tere rungting Like, occupied Luishinsin
will paralyse few days. The Swedish Government Swedish export trade. A Norwegian The paroplets were dropped tied in on Monday morning.--Domel.
the ritory during the past twenty days west of the Hankow-Canton Rallway, has temporarily suspended the ship- delegation has left for London to dis- bundles ment of cellulose, and exporters are cuss the question
the size of a brick. The with the British raids were mostly sald to be taking action to meet the Government,
carried out at night and the fact that most of the Bituntion. It is stated that such car- In addition to the Swedish ships, pamphlets dropped in the right places goes will have to be transported to two Finnish vessels have been sunk testfed to lite skill of the airmen Norway and re-shipped from there'so far.-Reuter Bulletin.
Reuter Bulletin,
Chinese Resistance
Changsha, Sept. 20. Large-scale fighting is roging in a
The Sin-l lying between
wide trea
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