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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1939

35,000 CZECHS ARRESTED

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(By Telegraph. Telegraphic Communication Ordinance, 1894. Received, Sept. 15, 1 p.m.)

Shanghai, To-day. According to messages just received via Amsterdam, 35,000 Czechs were ar- rested in Bohemia and Moravia during the first week of the war.

The Amsterdam papers yesterday published details of the mass arrests, quot- ing Czech sources.

Most of those arrested were the Czech “intellectuals” in the country, and these have been taken out of the so-called "Protectorate."

A large number of priests who were arrested in Moravia during the first week of September have been interned in a concentration camp at Stepanow.-Our Own Correspondent.

GREAT FLARE-UP THREE

ON WESTERN

FRONT IMMINENT

(Our Own Correspondent)

(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Communications Ordinance, 1804. Received, Sept. 18, 12.41 p.m.)

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By Telegraph. Copyright Telegraphic Communications Ordinance, 1894. Received, Sept. 16, 12.41 · p.m.)

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(From Our Own Correspondent) (By Telegraph. Telegraphic Commu- nications Ordinance, 1894. Received, Sept, 15, 12.41 p.m.). - :

Shanghai, To-day. Germany's losses in the drive on Poland, which has been pressed regard- less of cost, have been heavier than generally imagined.

Reports from Berne show that wounded have been flowing back to German in large numbers, while some indication is also furnished by the fact that the Polish Army, although on the defensive and retreating, has taken in- 13,000 German prisoners of war, cluding 350 officers.

OFFICIAL FIGURES:- These are the official figures given

officers are from the German

"Air

Force and from the mechanised units.

ALL THE SIGNS OF THE IMMINENCE OF A in London that the oil-tank-by the Polish Telegraph, Agency, GREAT FLARE-UP ON THE WESTERN FRONT er, "British Influence," has which adds that the majority of the -EVACUATION BY LUXEMBOURG AND BEL-been torpedoed by a German GIUM OF BORDER VILLAGES, UNPRE-submarine some CEDENTEDLY HEAVY CANNONADING, OR- DERS TO INHABITANTS OF MANY CITIES IN has rescued all the members of the WEST GERMANY TO PREPARE FÖR IMME-crew, which were picked up by the DIATE EVACUATION APPEAR IN THE Our Own Correspondent. LATEST REPORTS FROM EUROPEAN CAPI- TALS.

Operations of the last ten days are swelling to a cres- cendo, and the French have just commenced a. big offensive on a new sector of the Moselle front which if successful will jeopardise the German positions round Saarbrucken. The attack was launched at about four o'clock yesterday afternoon by French infantry, led by heavy tanks, after heavy artillery had paved the way.

Rapid progress was made at the beginning of the attack, as the German advanced posts were quickly driven in.

The Nazis have, withdrawn from all positions to the south of the Luxem- bourg town of Schengen, which has been evacuated.

GERMAN PRECAUTION Correspondents In Amsterdam re- veal that many cities in the western district of Germany are being eva- cuated shortly, which can only be in anticipation of the imminence of heavy fighting on the zone.

Owing to the increasing violence of Franco-German hostilities,

orders

tremity of the Franco-German fron- tier.

Watchers

Luxemburg on the side of the frontier saw French tanker move Into action after heavy artillery préparation.

.: German outposts were compelled. to withdraw and engineers blew up the rallway line to stem the advance.

The roar of battle could be heard as far as the clty of Luxam- burg and the authorities Imme. diately ordered the evacuation of Schengen at the southernmost tip of Luxemburg← Router,

NEW TRADE AGREEMENT

(Our Own Correspondent) were issued yesterday in Brussels and Luxembourg for the compulsory (By Telegraph, Telegraphic Com- evacuation of several villages and munications Ordinance, 1894. Receiv- bamlets along their respective bored, September 15, 12.41 p.m.) ders--Our Own Correspondent.

Shanghai, To-day.

FRENCH OFFENSIVE /

It is reported from Budapest that Hungary Brussels, To-day.

and Rumanin... yesterdny The French launched an offensive signed a new trade agreement, re- yesterday afternoon near Perl, in the placing that which expired in March Moselle River District, on the ex-last-Qur Own Correspondent,

Norwegian steamer, "Ida Barke."

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The Poles have also captured *48 field guns, 215 machine-guns. 170 tanks and more than a thou- sand caro.

The total of German planes brought down during the operations in Poland has been 280.-Our Own Correspon- dent.

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