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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 29, 1939.

VIVID OFFICIAL REPORT ON LAST HOURS OF WARSAW: CITY ON FIRE FOR DAYS

London, To-day. CHAPLAIN

A VIVID PICTURE of the last hours of the defence

of Warsaw is given in a telegram received in of- ON "MUSH"

ficial Polish sources in London.

Militiamen are not "namby-pam-

the Rev. A. Wellesley Orr, chaplain of

A telegram from the Warsaw Command reported on

the events of September 27, as follows: "Dur-bles and want to be soldiers, declared ing last night and this morning heavy fighting has been proceeding to the west of the Vistula and German attacks from the west and south were repulsed.

During

counter-attacks

by our

forces, prisoners were taken and four tanks and three guns captured.

The enemy used a large number of incendiary bombs and the city

· has

bean for several days in flames, especially in the central parts.

Destruction of the pumping station renders salvage work impossible and whole streets are afire.

Water is being supplied population by carts-Reûter.

to the

NEGOTIATIONS SHOULD END TO-DAY

London, To-day. Only news from Poland received in London yesterday. was contained in an official communique issued by the Warsaw defence command.

The message sald negotiations 'for capitulation of Warsaw and

and

: Modlin ware continuing

should and to-day (Friday)... The report mentioned the severe hardships of the civilian population. EPIDEMICS IMMINENT

Fire had destroyed the food stores, all hospitals had been destroyed and .epidemics were imminent.

"Despite this, the moral strength of the inhabitants remains unimpaired."

The communique said the de- fence command did not wish to increase the superhuman suffer-. ings of the civilian population, and owing to the lack of muni- tions," they had decided to nego- tiate the capitulation of Warsaw and Modlin.

"These negotiations are now in pro- gress and should end on Friday, September 29," Reuter.

16,000 WOUNDED "WITHOUT ADEQUATE

TREATMENT,

(Our Own Correspondent)

JAPANESE MACHINE- GUN JUNK: THREE DEAD

TWO JAPANESE PLANES FIRED ON A STATIONARY JUNK, KILL- ING TWO WOMEN AND A SMALL GIRL AND WOUNDING ANOTHER WOMAN AND TWO BOYS ONE OF THEM ONLY 12 MONTHS OLD, AC-. THE POLICE LAST NIGHT CORDING TO A REPORT. MADE TO

KWOK PING, 28, MASTER TRADING JUNK NO. T1724H.

the East Surrey Depot, preaching at of the East Surrey Regiment at St. Paul's Church, Kingston-hill, of which

the first church parade of Militiamen

he is vicar,

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He protested against the idea that Militiamen wished things to be made easy. Their period of military service should enable them to return home with something new in their outlook on life.

He hoped it would help them to clear away some of that sentimentality which had been "turning our civilised

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GREAT STRIDES

IN LENS MAKING

••

80 great have been the dis coveries in the manufacture of specialised glass for chemical and optionl use during the past five years that a colentist of Cam- bridge University says that all the specialised requirements of glass for the armed forces can be met by our own factorles.

This advance

means an anormous since the fast war. Amazing progress has been made In this country in optical glass- for range finders, field glasses, gun sights and anti-aircraft sights.

- By

Much of the ploneer work in which the university experts have been asked to advise has been carried out by Woode, of Barnos ley, the Grown works at Pankar

* marr and Stroud, of York.

The resources of English fac- tories are at least equal to those of Germany, and the output is keeping pace with the abnormal demand.

Research work is also being Intensified on the problems of giving the motorist safety from dazzle.

life into a great mush and which dren's courts instead of canes for boys seemed to demand bouquets for and girls, and soft jobs for brutes, cushions for criminals, chil-body."

BY OF

TOOD BEDDING

RE MADE

UKENE

Kwok stated that on September 13 his junk was anchored off Swabue when two Japanese planes appeared overhead and machine-gunned the junk

Two women, Ho Yau, 25, and LI Mul, 37, and an eight-year-old girl, Kwok Mul, were killed. Those wounded were a 49-year-old woman, Ng Kiú, and two boys, Kwok Saing, 13, and Kwok Kan-shing, 12 months.

Kwok Ping arrived in the Colony yesterday.

"EREBUS" GOING HOME

London, To-day.

The monitor "Erebus," now part of the defences of Cape- town, has been re-transferred- to the Admiralty.

Other suitable arrangements are

(By Telegraph. Received, Sept. 29, being made at CapetownL

1.04 p.m.).

Paris, To-day. A strange report has come from Warsaw suggesting that the troops are determined to fight on.

The report, however, goes on to say that negotiations are necessary in view of the lack of water, the fact that 16,000 soldiers are lying wound- ed with inadequate facilities for treat- ment, while the number of dead and uninjured cannot be estimated.

The report, which apparently eman- ates from official quarters, says that both food and ammunition are run- ning short.-Our Own Correspondent.

THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS

The United Kingdom Government, says a Ministry of Information bul- letin, warmly appreciates the prompt response of the Union Government to! British proposals for return of the "Erebus."-Reuter.

BREMEN AT MURMANSK

London, To-day,

A message from Malmo (Sweden) confirms the earlier report that the German liner "Bremen" is in the North Russian port of Murmansk.

The "Bremen" was seen in Mur- mansk by the crew of

Swedish vessel which arrived at Malmo yes-

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