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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 22, 1939
NAZIS NOW ADMIT POLES FIGHT ON AT FOUR POINTS
London, To-day.
THE NAZI RADIO yesterday admitted that the
Polish armies were still resisting in four places. These are Warsaw; Modlin fortress (north-west of Warsaw); a point south-east of Warsaw, and in the Hela Peninsula (in the Baltic).
This admission came only a few hours after the claim by General von Brauchituch, the German commander-in-chief, that the Poles had been ex- terminated, and all fighting had ceased.
A speaker over the Nazi radio ad- mitted that the fighting for Warsaw still continued.
Reason was, he said, that the Nazis hesitated to smash the city to pieces! --Reuter.
MAYOR'S BROADCAST
London, To-day. Another broadcast has been picked up in London by the Lord Mayor of Warsaw.
He said: "Our spirit Is strong. "When I asked yesterday for Bri- tish and French ald, it was not, a sign of weakness.
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"We do not despair, and will con- tinue fighting confident in our strength and that our allies will not desert us.
"We shall win."-Reuter.
WARSAW SUCCESSES IN -SORTIES
London, To-day. Radio Warsaw announced last even- ing that the defenders of the Potich capital have gained further successCo west of Warsaw, "where many enemy attacks were repulsed.
Three Polish cavalry brigades have broken through the German lines horth-west of Warsaw and have ar- ..rived to strengthen the garrison...
Several air raids took place on the suburbs, in which 70 Nazi planes took part. Beven were brought down.
Hundreds of civilians were killed in yesterday's air raids on Warsaw.
The Rumanian Embassy, was de- stroyed by German bombs and the Soviet Embassy badly damaged by incendiary bombs. Several of the Soviet diplomats were injured. Reuter:
LWOW OCCUPIED
London, To-day. The defenders of Warsaw have been reinforced by three brigadea of cavalry which succeeded. In › breaking -- through the German ring and entering the city, ac- cording to a Warsaw broadcast.— "Router.",
WARSAW REINFORCED
London, To-day. Soviet troops have succeeded In occupying Lwów, according to an official communique broadcast from Moscow.
It is stated that Kowel and -Grodno have also been occupied.
Reuter.
NAZI-SOVIET AGREEMENT
Moscow, To-day, Complete agreement has now. been reached, according to`com - potent quarters, on the respectiva zones of operation of the German. and Soviet forces in Poland.
: Router.
DIPLOMATS LEAVE
Warsaw, To-day. Two hundred members of foreign resident diplomatic missions in War- -saw have left the Polish capital after prolonged negotiations with the Ger-
mans.
The only foreign diplomats now re- maining in Warsaw are the Soviet and "Turkish missions, →→ Reuter.
MORE REFUGEES REACHING HUNGARY Budapest, To-day. More Polish soldiers and women and children refugees are arriving in Hungary in the north-west corner of former Ruthenia.-Reuter.
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CAR THAT "FELL
TO PIECES'
Flight Cadet John Kenneth Churchill Ralston, of the R.A.F. ∙College, Granwell, was fined a total of £2, with 15a`8d costs, at Windsor for ignoring a-halt sign.
Acting Chief Constable Sharpe sald that Ralston went over a halt sign without stopping, and when he collided with a lorry his car fell to places all round him in the contre of the road.
Ralston said that he made the car at home. When he approach. ed the halt sign his brakes falled to act, and he ran into the larry.
NO NAZI TROOPS ON BELGIAN - BORDER
Belga,
Brussels, To-day.
the semi-official Belgian news agency, denied yesterday reports of German troop concentrations the German-Belgium frontier.
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BIG ROBBER
HAUL
Three armed robbers escap- ed into Chinese territory with over $6,000 after robbing a merchant in Nam Pin Vil- lage, Sheung Shui, at about 2 a.m. to-day.
The booty consisted of $2,145 in lo- cal currency; $3,200 in Chinese cur- rency, and $3,281 in jewellery and other articles.
The robbers, forced their way into Pang Chau's residence and shop, and after binding and gagging the inmates, ransacked the place.
They fired six shots when pursued after leaving the premises,
NAZIS SEEK OİL BY TRUCK FROM RUMANIA
Bucharest, To-day. The Nazi econòmic mission in Ru- mania has ordered 1,500 trucks to take Rumanian oil to Germany.
Reason is that the sea route has been cut by the British Navy. Reu-
The agency says it is able to state from authoritative sources that there ports are totally unfounded.-Reuter. Iter.
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