1939-09-11 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 11, 1990

WARSAW HOLDS OUT-

POLES CONSOLIDATING

London, To-day.

A despatch from Bucharest says that the Poles are successfully consolidating their positions on the front north-east of Warsaw.

It says the Poles have been given a breathing-space to organise long-range re- sistance.

In the south, the Poles have organised a new line on the Vistula.-Reuter.

GERMAN COMMUNIQUE SAYS MECHANISED UNITS WERE IN CITY, BUT WITHDREW

London, To-day.

THE GERMAN HIGH COMMAND, according to a Nazi radio broadcast from Berlin, claims that

German motorised units penetrated to the cen-

tre of Warsaw "but withdrew to await the arrival of the main army."

爾後

There is no confirmation of the Nazi claim to the capture of Lodz, the large industrial centre 75 miles south-west of Warsaw.

Both German and Polish communiques report that

a severe battle is raging north of Warsaw.

German planes are bombing the roads out of Warsaw to the south and south-east.

The German forces, north-east

of Warsaw, are trying to establish bridgeheads.

On the south-west an even greater battle is raging on a front from Lodz

A Reuter correspondent who was one of a party who travelled to the Rumanian frontier by road, said to Warsaw along the railway to the that Nazi planes have been flying Vistula.-Reuter. as far as the frontier, though there have been few actual air raids the east of Poland.. He thought the planes were taking photographs. Reuter.

READY FOR LONG DEFENCE

Warsaw, To-day.

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Polish General Headquarters yester. day stated that Warsaw was ready for a long defence.-Reuter.

"NAZI ATTACK BLACKENING"

London, To-day.

A Polish radio broadcast from Vilna late last night declared: "Warsaw is still holding out, and fighting is continuing six miles from the centre of the city." The broadcast included a talk by a military observer, who said that the

Nazi attack was slackening.

The observer declared it was part draw the interior of the country and then to attack his lines of communication.-Reuter.

of the Polish strategy to enemy deep into the

VERSIONS IN ROME

Rome, To-day.

Italian newspaper reports give a different version of the fighting in .Poland.

They allege that German mechanis- ed units entered the suburbs of War- saw on Friday, but later retired.

The Italian press asserts that the Nazis have now completely surround- ed Warsaw.-Reuter.

MET BY SNIPING

London, To-day.

A Budapest message says there is heavy fighting round Warsaw.

Quoting a Warsaw broadcast, the message says the Nazi forces are un- able to register important gains.

It says that Nazi mechanised units' which tried to enter Warsaw were met by sniping and retired.-Reuter.

ATTACK HELD UP, GERMANY ADMITS

·London, To-day. The German High Command, In a communiqué lesued last night, admit- ted that their attack on Warsaw was being hold up north-west and south- west of the Polish capital.

These battles, according to the Ger-

- man" communique, are likely to be

decisivo.

ROADS BLOCKED

Berlin, To-day. A communique claims that between the mountains and the Upper Vistula, the German forces continue in pur- suit of the Poles in an easterly direc- tion.

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Fierce battles are proceeding.

The communique adda that north-east of Warsaw the Gar- the mona gained a foothold on river and asserts that the Gør- man Air Force bombing attacko blocked the roads leading back from Warsaw. Reuter,

GERMANS · WITHDRAWING

London, To-day. A Polish general staff communique broadcast by the Warsaw radio station states that German forces have withdrawn from the immediate neighbourhood of War-

saw.

A Ministry of Information bulletin refers to the exception- ally high morale of all ranka of the Polish troops and their toughness and steadiness in re- treat.

Despite the tremendous weight of men and material, the Polish Army has shown no sign of crack- ing under the strain imposed on it-Reuter.

LVOV WARNED

London, To-day.

An appeal to the citizens of Lvov, the third largest city of Poland, 180 miles east of Cracow, to resist any attack on the city was broadcast from Lvov last night.-Reuter.

GERMANY PREPARES PEOPLE FOR BLOWING UP/

Lendón, To-day.

REFUGEE

TRAIN BOMBED

London, To-day.

A Havas despatch from War- saw reports that a train packed with clvillan refugees from the Polish capital was bombed by Nazi planes-Reuter.

LONDON COMMENT

ON POLISH STAND

London, To-day. Though it is hard to obtain exact details of the fighting in Poland, says a statement issued by the Ministry of In- formation, one thing is clear -the heroic resistance of the Polish army against over? whelming odds.

The statement recalls that on Fri- day night the Nazis announced the fall of Warsaw, and says that the Po- lish Ambassador in London yesterday said the German claims were false and that Polish news bulletins were still being broadcast from Warsaw.

By Field-Marshal Gooring's own confession, Germany had massed 70 divlalons for her ag. gression against Poland, and In spite of the Nazis' might in men and materials, the Poles showed no signs of cracking under the strain but had withdrawn in a steady and orderly manner. It is too soon yet to talk of what will happen to

the Warsaw, says statement, but it is certain that the Polish army is still in being and is showing qualities that have evoked universal- admiration.-Reuter,

VIVID IMPRESSION OF WAR'S MEANING TO POLAND TO-DAY

Cernautzi, (Rumania), To-day. A VIVID IMPRESSION of wartime conditions in Poland is given by Reuter's special correspondent who arrived last night on the Rumanian frontier in a British Em- bassy car crammed with the Embassy staff, mostly women, after a three and a half day journey from War- saw, marked by constant air raid alarms.

The correspondent says that the unexpectedly rapid ad- vance of the invaders has distressed but not discourag- ed the Poles who are proud that their Army are fight- ing overwhelming odds and are convinced that the Al- lies will win in the west.

speed of their advance," declared the announcer in the midnight broadcast of the German` radio..

He added:

"It is necessary to spend a const- derable time 'in securing the district so far invaded."-Reuter.

"CONCLUDED"

Berlin, To-day.

The correspondent adds: The most disturbing feature of the military situation has been the German ad- vance from Slovakia which is threa- tening the Bug-Vistula line, where the Polish command were convinced they would be able to make a long stand.

The British and French Embassies, which arrived at the temporary capital near Lublin on Tuesday, learned al- most immediately that the village was

A German news agency report untenable

le and they were ordered to dated from Der Fuchrer's headquar-pack for an unknown destination in ters states that military operations in the Pinsk marshes.-Reuter. the Polish corridor are "regarded as concluded.'

Der Fuehrer has inspected the Ger- man forces in Silesia.-Reuter.

WARSAW STILL BROADCASTING

London, To-day.

A. Ministry of Information bulle-

casts have heard the

had not succeeded in entering Wor- saw. and is confirmed by the Polish government's own wireless bulletins which are still broadcast from War- saw itself.

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upon

thing

tin says:-Listeners to foreign' broad- Detailed reports of the actual pro-

attack announcement gress of the German in Polish made on Friday night and Poland are difficult to obtain in the repeated on Saturday by German-heat of the battle, but official wireless from a station al- stands out, the heroic resistance offer- leged to be 15 miles from Warsawed by the Polish armies against that the city had fallen to German tremendous odds. British Wireless. troops:

The broadcast address made last

"Regarding operations on the Po-night by the Polish Ambassador in High front, the German people must London, Count Racynski, reaffirmed

The P. and O. 6.s. Nowshera is ar-

understand that our troops cannot be that the German troops, in spite of riving from Nagasaki on Thursday expected to maintain the surprising | the German Government's claims, | morning: