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AMERICAN AMBASSADOR ACCUSES NAZI PLANES OF MACHINE-GUNNING HIS CAR

POLES WILL BATTLE ON IN SECRET

(Our Own Correspondent) (By Telegraph. Received, September 25, 12.30 p.m.)

Berne, To-day.

(Our Own Correspondent)

(By Telegraph. Received, September 25, 12.30 p.m.)

Paris, To-day.

AN ACCUSATION suggesting that Nazi planes de- liberately attacked the car carrying the Ameri- can Ambassador to Poland to the safety of the Rumanian frontier was made by the Ambassa- dor, Mr. A. J. Drexel Biddle, on his arrival here. yesterday from Bucharest.

Both Germany and Soviet Mr. Biddle characterised the whole of the German Russia are destined to find it

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MORE RUMOURS OF MASSING

NAZI TROOPS

London, To-day. Reports from the Continent, of which there has been no confirm - ation, state that large condon. trations of German troops in the Black Forest, opposite the Swiss frontier, are taking place. Reu- ter.

SOVIET

air attacks on Polish civilians as carried out in a FLOTILLA deliberate attempt to terrorise the population. marcation in Poland than to The Ambassador emphasised that he was only able ACTIVE

easier to arrange a line of de-

settle down in peaceful oc- cupation, according to a cor- respondent in Poland of the "Basler Nachrichten,

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He declares that secret organisa- tions, created with a view to battling the Germans and Russians from be- hind the lines were formed among the Polish prior to the retreat of troops.

These hodles have been formed in almost identical manner to Marshal Pilsudski's organisation during the World War.Our Own Correspondent.

DOG-FIGHTS

IN SAAR ZONE

(Our Own Correspondent) (By Telegraph. Received, September 25, 12.80 p.m.)

Paris, To-day. Aerial dog-fights along the Western Front are in- creasing in frequency as the

to speak from his personal experiences, and from what he himself had seen when going through his ordinary duties at the Embassy in Warsaw.

and gen

(Our Own Correspondent) (By Telegraph. Received, Septem- ber 25, 12.80 p.m.)

› PARIS, TO-DAY. ACCORDING TO A RADIO MES- SAGE FROM MOSCOW, THE SO- Describing the attack on his car, he REFUGEE TRAIN BARBARITY VIET RIVER: FLEET, : WITHOUT said that the experience was not his Recalling the incident when a train ENCOUNTERING ANY RESIST- alone. His car and other diplomatic carrying civilian refugees was bomb-ANCE, IS PURSUING ITS DRIVE were machine-gunned on their jed 72 times by, German bombers, he ALONG THE RIVER DNIEFER way to Rumanit, not once, but three said that women and children were INTO THE RIVER- PRIPET.

repeatedly machine-gunned when they

was or four times,

The confluence of the rivers

the were trying to return to the train reached yesterday, and

flotilla from the forests.

continued to the railway bridge from Lunitsev to Sarny, and discovered mines in the vicinity.

cars

The planes attacked, he do- clared, although clearly identi fable flags were painted on the tops of the roofs, and flown from the front.

The Ambassador went on to tell press correspondents

Was

Mr. Biddle, stressed that this.

an eye-witness account of the barbarity.

It was obvious, he said, that

the

of the incident German were trying to terrorise the

at the beginning of the German-Po-civillan population.

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Before the arrival of the river gunboats, the Polish sank se- veral ships, some of them carrying ammunition. Our Own Correspon-

lish conflict when German air raid- When he departed from Warsaw, dent. ers dropped bombs into the garden of about 300 German planes had beerr

Mr. Biddle's summer resort just destroyed by the Poles. He estimated of 5,000 machines over Poland.---Our · outside Warsaw.

that the German loosed an air armada Own Correspondent.

NO MILITARY OBJECTIVE He said he had rented the villa, which was approximately 18 kilome- tres outside the Polish capital, for a holiday when he was subjected to the bombing. Six bombs exploded near the house.

The important thing was, he point-

could it have been suggested that the village in which the villa was situat- ed was a military objective or con- tained any military objects.

French fight to maintained out, that under no circumstances their supremacy in the air.

It is claimed that mastery is easily retained, and the latest official com- the laconic an- munique carries nouncement: French planes brought down several German planes.

The number is not, however, given. -Our Own Correspondent.

SOVIET PACT RATIFIED

'London, To-day. Documents ratifying the Soviet- German non-aggression pact of August 23 were exchanged at the German Foreign Office in. Berlin yesterday by Herr von Weissacher and the Soviet "Ambassador.

It was pointed out somewhat super- fluously by the Nazi news agency that the paet had come into affect without this formal ratification.-Reuter.

WEATHER FORECAST:—East winds, fresh, cloudy, probably cocaalonal rain.

It was an Interesting fact, he Bald, that whenever foralan di- plomats moved, from place to

place, German bombers seemed to seek them out and bomb the ol- tles they were in, possibly Im- agining that Colonel Beck would be found there too.

NAZI MINE EXPLOSION

London, To-day. An explosions occurred in a German coal mine between Essen and Dortmund yester- day,

Eight were killed and 40 seriously Injured, while the escape of nine others is said to have been cut off.

The district is an important steel works centre, with large cast-steel land factories and foundries-Reuter.

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