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GERMAN CIVILIAN EVACUATION OF SAAR BASIN

(From Our Own Correspondent)

(By Telograph. Telegraphic. Communications Ordinance, 1894.

Received, Bept. 18, 1.45 p.m. Delayed by the Censor)

Shanghai, To-day.

FAST ON THE HEELS of the Reuter report indicat- ing that a dramatic change has taken place in the military situation in Poland, the recapture

of the key city, Lodz, south-west of Warsaw, and the news that the Polish troops in the Poznan Pocket have extricated themselves, comes equal- ly interesting news from the Western Front. As the result of the steady French pressure in the Saar, and signs of the imminence of a Big Push into the Siegfried Line, the whole area behind the German lines is being evacuated of civilians.

RADIO STATION SENSATION

(Our Own Correspondent)

(By Telegraph. Telegraphic Com.. munications Ordinance, 1894, Received, Sept. 13, 1.45 p.m. Delayed by Censor),

All civilians have already evacuated Saarbrucken and Trier (Treves) but the order has been extended to in- clude Aachen, the important railway junction far to the north, and is ex- pected to take effect as from to-day.

The evacuees are all walking. No transport is available for other than military purposes and long lines of people have been observed by reconnaissance planes · pro- ceeding "northwards.

They are not allowed to carry more than forty pounds of their belongings, most of which, therefore, they have been compelled to abandon.

WOUNDED ARRIVING

field. All hospitals in the town have

A sensation has been creat-

In the meantime, neutrals report ed in London by reports from Aachen that large numbers of from the United States to wounded German soldiers are arriv- the effect that the Federal ing at Aachen from the Saar battle- Broadcasting Commission been requisitioned by the military has levied charges of illegal broadcasting against the Knickerbocker Broadcasting Company

with the exception of one reserved for civilian patients in a serious con- dition. Our Own Correspondent.

Paris, -To-day.

A French official communique says that the situation is under proper The Knickerbocker organisation is control on the Saar Front alleged to have intercepted and in- There has been strong reaction, on serted into its regular news bulletins, the part of the enemy especially with secret Information sent by the Bri- | artillery,

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The Danish Foreign Office has an- Prime Ministers and

Sweden, Nor Denmark will mest to discuss neutral-

It is stated that the secret orders nounced that the broadcasts in the bulletins were Ger- man and British Army and Navy way, Finlend orders to "armed forces, Our Own her Mandi

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