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HEROIC RESISTANCE OF

OF POLISH ARMY AGAINST MOST OVERWHELMING

Nazi Claim Warsaw Penetrated And Troops Awaiting Main Army

-THOUGH IT IS HARD TO OBTAIN EXACT DETAILS OF THE FIGHTING IN POLAND, SAYS A STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE

LONDON, SEPT. 11 (REUTER)

ODDS

SOVIET PREPARING - FOR WHAT?

MOSCOW, Sept. 11 (Renter)—Tanks are rolling out of Mos

cow in an endless stream all night and all trains leaving the capital are filled with troops bound for an unknown destina- tion.

Reservists in the military districts between the Baltic Sex and the Black Sea have now been called up.

The Soviet's military meastires are having a noticeable effect on the capital where the normal routine has been interrupted and the theatres usually packed, are half empty.

MINISTRY OF INFORMATION, ONE THING IS CLEAR GERMAN TROOPS AWAITING

-THE HEROIC RESISTANCE OF THE POLISH ARMY AGAINST OVERWHELMING ODDS.

The statement recalls that on Friday night the Ger- mans announced the fall of Warsaw and says that the Polish Ambassador in London yesterday stated that the German claims were false and that the Polish news bulle- tins were still being broadcast from Warsaw.

By Field Marshal von Goering's own confession, Ger- mány has "massed seventy divisions for Her aggression against Poland, but despite the Nazi might in men and materials, the Poles have shown no signs of cracking un- der the strain and haye withdrawn in a steady and order- ly manner.

It is too soon to talk of what will happen to Warsaw, says that statement, but it is certain that the Polish Army is still in being and is showing qualities that have evoked universal admiration.

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ARRIVAL OF MAIN FORCES OUTSIDE WARSAW

The German High LONDON, Sept. 11 (Reuter) Command, according to a Nazi radio broadcast from Berlin. claims that German motorised units have pene- ̈. trated into the centre of Warsaw. " but withdrew to await the arrival of the main Army."

There is no confirmation of the Nazi claim to have captured Lodz, the large industrial centre 75 miles south-west of Warsaw.

ATTACK HELD UP Both German and Polish

that LONDON. Sept. 11" (Reuter)- report communiques sevére battles are raging The German High Coramand, in a issued yesterday I'north of Warsaw. German communique

night admitted that their attack are bombing roads leading out of Warsaw to the Warsaw was being held up in the north-west and the south-west These capital," south and south-west..

the Polish ot battles, according to the German be to communique, are likely decisive.

LONDON, Sept. 11 (Reuter) the South the Poles have organis-planes A Polish General Staff com- ed new lines on the Vistula. HEAVY FIGHTING" munique broadcast by War-

LONDON, Sept. 11 Reuter)-A saw radlo stated that the German forces have with-Budapest message says that there drawn from the immediat is heavy fighting around Warsaw. Quoting a Warsaw broadcast the message says that the Nazi forces neighbourhood of Warsaw.

A Ministry of Information bulle-are unable to register important tin refers to the exceptionally high claims. morale of all ranks of the Polish troops and their toughness and steadiness in retreat.

Despite

the tremendous weight of men and material. the Polish Army has shown no sign of cracking under the strain imposed on it.

An appeal to the citizens of Lwow, the third largest town in Poland, 180 miles east of Cracow.

It says that the German me- chunised units which tried to enter Warsaw were met by sniping and retreated.

Reuter's correspondent, who was one of the party travelling to the Rumanian frontier by road said that Nazi planes had been flying as far as the fron- fler, though there had been few actual air raids in east Poland. He thought the planes were taking photographs.

FIERCE BATTLES BERLIN, Sept. 11 (Reuter)—A LONDON, Sept. 11 (Reuter)-A German communique claims that Havas despatch from Warsaw re between the-mountains and ports that a train packed with re-River Vistula. German forces con- fugees from the Polish capital was tinge in pursuit of the Poles in an easterly direction and that fierce bombed by Nazi planes.

battles are proceeding.

SIX MILES AWAY.. LONDON, Sept. 11 Reuter)

to resist any attack on the city | Broadcasting from Warsaw, the was broadcast from Lwow last City's Mayor revealed that fighting night.

GERMAN STATEMENT

"Regarding the operations on the Polish front, the Ger- man people must understand that our troops cannot be er- pected to maintain the sur- prising speed of their ad- vance," declared the announ- cer in a midnight broadcast on the German radio last night. He added: "It is necessary to spend a con- siderable time. securing the district invaded so far."

A

message

was in progress six miles from Warsaw. He claimed that the German attacks had been reptised and added that the morale of the troops and the people was cellent.

ex-

The latest reports from War- saw correspondents to neutral countries state that the main Polish Army is now occupying positions along the line of the Vistula and the River Bug and It is indicated that it is in- tended to prepare for "long- range resistance.

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HOLDING OUT ·

Another London message says from Berlin that a Polish radio broadcast from states that a German news viina late last night declared agency report, dated from the "Warsaw is still holding out, and Reich Fuehrer's headquarters, fighting is still continuing six states that military opera-miles from the centre of the city." tions in the Polish Corridor are regarded as concluded..

The Fuehrer is stated to have inspected the German forces in Silesia.

WAR CONDITIONS IN POLAND CERNAUTZI, Sept. 11 (Reuter)- In Rumanía, a vivid impression of wartime conditions in Poland was given to Reuter's special correspon- dent who arrived last night, on the Rumanian frontier in a British Embassy car. crammed with Em- bassy staff, mostly women, after three-and-a-half day journey from Warsaw, which was marked by constant air raid alarms.

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The correspondent says that the unexpectedly rapid ad- vance of the invaders had dis- tressed, but not discouraged, the Poles who were proud of the fact that their army was 'fighting against overwhelming odds and were convinced that the Alles would win in the, West.

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- DISTURBING FEATURE

The most disturbing feature of the military situation has been the German advance from Slovakia threatening the Bug-Vistula line.

The broadcast was conclud-

ed by a talk by a military observer who said that the German attack was slacken- ing. The observer säld that it was a part of Polish strategy to draw the enemy deeper inte the interior" of the country

then and

their to attack lines of communication

WARSAW BOMBED FOURTEEN TIMES IN ONE DAY PARIS, Sept. 11 (Reuter)- Col, Lipinski. commanding the Warsaw Garrison, stated, according to the Havas cor- respondent, that the city was bombed fourteen times on Sunday by 70 German planes, 15 of which were brought 'down.

HINDENBURG DAM ESCAPES DESTRUCTION

COPENHAGEN, Sept. 11 (Reuter)

where the Polish Command were-The Hindenburg Dam; connect convinced they would be able to ing the Island of Sylt with the make a long 'stand.

French

and The British Embassies, which arrived at the temporary capital near Lublin on Tuesday, learned almost immediately that the village was untenable and were ordered to pack for an un-" known destination in the Pinsk Marshes.

BREATHING SPACE

LONDON, Sept. 11 (Reuter)--A

mainland, escaped destruction in the British air raid on Saturday. A workman on the Island stated that he saw two planes, of un- known nationality, drop into the sea in an air battle during the raid.

The Germans are evacuating the

population

from

the

civilian

Island.

PAPAS, Sept. 11 (Reuter)—An

being

despatch from Budapest says that Austrian Legion is now

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SHANGHAI SITUATION

The German fores north- west of Warsaw are trying to establish bridgeheads. On the south-west, an Even greater battle is aging on the front

CHUNGKING, SEPT. 11 (CEN- THE from Lodz to Warsaw along the

TRAL) SITUATION IN rallway to the Vistula,

WESTERN DISTRICT OF SHANG- DIFFERENT VERSIONS

HAI ARISING FROM THE JAPAN- 11 (Reuter) ESE MILITARY OCCUPATION OF ROME, Sept. the

ΤΟ A ACCORDING Italian newspapers give different NO. 31 REFUGEE CAMP REMAINS versions of the Aghting in Poland. TENSE, They allege that the German SHANGHAI DESPATCH. mechanised units have entered the "Tatao" policemen, armed with that suburbs of Warsaw on Friday, but rifles, are now patrolling the dis- The communique adds

sandbag barricades north-east of Warsaw the Germans later retired. The Italian press trict while have gained a foothold across the asserts that the Nazis have now have been erected at severa} {m- river and asserts that bombing completely surrounded Warsaw. attacks by the German Air Force have blocked the roads leading

back from Warsaw.

The communique also admits that French reconnoltring troops and have crossed the frontier

entered fighting contact with our outpost."

portant points.

El.

A party of British troops was dispatched to INDIAN LOYALTY

the place early SIMLA, Sept. 11 (Reuter)-One yesterday morning. Shortly after- platoon of Japanese hundred and one Indian princes wards," a have hitherto sent loyal messages soldiers arrived there facing the to the Viceroy of India, Lord Lin-British tommies, but were later lithgow.

-withdrawi

ANOTHER SHIP TORPEDOED: CREW RESCUED: BRITISH CONVOY SYSTEM NOW BEING longed to the Thompson Steam- ARRANGED Sept &

NO PEACE AT EXPENSE OF POLAND

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WAR CABINET'S DECISION

LONDON, Sept. 11 (Reuter} Cabinet's -The British War decision to prepare for a war

three least of at

years is welcomed by the British and says French

which press, that it shows that there will be no peace at the expense of Poland.

Enemy Ships. Captured

LONDON, SEFT. 11 (REUTER) THE LONDON STEAMER KENNE- BECK, 5,548 TONS, OWNED BY THE ANGLO-AMERICAN OIL CO., TORPEDOED, BUT WAS CREW WERE RESCUED.

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CHINESE BUDDHIST MONKS

HELP RESISTANCE

CHANGSHA, SEPT. 10 (CENTRAL)—BUDDHIST MONKS IN HUNAN ARE "DOING THEIR PART IN THE WAR OF "RE- SISTANCE.

A Buddhist Bellet Association has been organised at Hong- hsan (Nanyo), 69 miles south of Changsha, which is one of the four sacred mountains in China. It is busily engaged in relief of wounded soldiers and destitute refugees.

Young Buddhist monks have meanwhile organised a Buddhist

The Regent Tiger was sunk on Youths Service Corps. After a NAZIS WITHDRAWING

period of training. the corps has left for the north Human front to do wartime service.

Continued from Faze 1 investment of Gdynia continues and the towns of Neustadt and Putzig are in German hands."

THRILLING MOMENTS LONDON, Sept. 11 (Reuter)—A

It has as its captain Monk Yen member of the crew of the Union Wen, a Yunnanese, who before he Castle - Hiner, Warwick Castle, became a monk had been regi-

REFUGEES IN RUMANIA which escaped from two German mental commander. 'the

BUCHAREST, Sept. 11 (Reuter) submarines, toiq newspapermen of officer of the Nationalist Revolu the thrilling moments on board tionary Army as well as staff Two special trains, containing the glant vessel when she arrived officer of the Wocsung Garrison armed police, are proceeding to Headquarters and had taken part the Polish-Rumanian frontier to England yesterday.

stan

across the

A sailor, who was the look-out in the Northern Punitive Expedi- deal with civilian refugees who are

border. man at the time, said that they tion and the Shanghai hostilities beginning to stream THE sighted two German submarines In 1932.

the first was directly ahead and

It is understood that the Ro- intend to manian authorities

MANIFESTO ISSUED Chinese Buddhist help" China's deal sympathetically with the re on resistance on the ground that fugees.

Buddhism is anti-aggression and sympathetic with the oppressed.

Shortly afterwards they saw another submarine, which might have been the same craft, though he did not think so. This subinar- ine was astern, ..

As soon as the British Convoy the Warwick Castle started to system comes into force, shipping steer a zig-zag course and slipped losses are expected to cease. The the submarine. That was

Friday, London and Paris papers reject convoy system cannot be initiated the implication in Field Marshal, immediately as British merchant that this ships are scattered all over the von Goering's speech

con-world. country and France, might clude a separate peace with Ger- many at the expense of Poland.

Ships of the Royal Navy, of all

The Warwick Castle sent a radio NAZI PROPAGANDA

types have been active since the Responsible circles in Paris say outbreak of war in all parts of the call to vessels of the Royal Navy that Nazi

propaganda is still world in maintaining the Empire's and nothing more was seen of the

neutral trying

"The Navy has submarine, shipping routes." opinion by implying that the de- been specially active around the feat of Poland is near and the end of the war soon afterwards.

to

influence.

that

will come

This Nazi propaganda is based on the error of Diy- lead- chology which German

Once ors have often shown.

declared. and for all, it is Britain and France will make a common es use with Pom land. ,ti

in London, it can be stated ENT the highest authority, that Britain is at war so that the enormities, of the Nazi On Czechoslovakia attacks, and Poland shall not QCCULE again and that there will be ne negotiations unt all Nari troops are withdrawn Poland.

from

British Isles and in the Atlantic. Although we suffered losses from submarine attacks, even more enemy merchant ships have been captured, sunk.or Interned in neutral ports. The

·Admiralty is giving no details of the campaign agamist sub- marines, but our hunting flotll- las of destroyer and light craft are still active, -- LONDON, Sept. 11 (Reuter)

GONE ASHORE

LONDON, Sept. 11 (Reuter)

In a manifesto issued upon its Inauguration the Buddhist Youths' Service Corps declar ed: "The doctrine of Buddha seeks for the welfare of mamu- kind and, in fact, all living creatures. It is therefore op- posed to aggression and en- courages, resistance."

Commenting on the subject the newspaper Timpul" writes: ""The sufferings of Poland find in use a natural sympathy for a friendly neighbour. We shall to everything possible to ease the lot of these outcasts."

Ger-

The Berlin correspondent of the "National "Tidende" says that the the German bulletin, on the The work or

Chinese first Buddhists in the war of resistance western front fighting announced The Ministry of Information states has counteracted much of that of (over the radio yesterday created a that the German merchantmen Japanese Buddhist monks who great impression as many

have been sent in increasing num-mans are ignorant of the fact that tons) Baldur (5,805 Vegesack (4.061 tons) are reported bers to Japanese occupied areas war has started in the west and to have gone ashore on the Nor in China to try to "pacity" the are hoping that hostilities on that

Chinese and make them submit to front could be avoided. wegian coast.

Japanese rule..

the

"30 TAKE REFUGE

LONDON, Sept. 11 (Renter)--

PARIS, Sept. 11 (Reuter)-France

NAZI PLANE HELD. KAUNAS, Bept, 11

(Reuter)'

Nazi merchantmen, aggregating 30 has issued a new decree for the A German plane landed in the Three more British merchantment in number, which have taken re- protection of her gold reserves Lithuanian village. The machine have fallen victims to German fuge in the Spanish port of Vigo which are the largest in the world, was conscated and the two oc-

on the outbreak of war, will be in except those of the United States.cupants were intered: U-Boat attacks

The steamship Magdapur (9,285 termed 'there for the duration of No export of capital will be allow ed in any form, and trade in gold will only be authorised by special tona) was sunk and some casual-the conflict: tles are expected:

permit, while, Foreign Exchange transactions will be controlled.

The Magdapur, which is a sister- ship of the Manaar, was en route to Calcatta from Liverpool and the Poles are successfully con- formed in France to fight Ger

PARIS, Sept. 11 (Reuter) The was owned by the Anchor solidating their positions, on the many. It constata of exiles. The front north-west of Warsaw. The French Ministry of War states Military Governor of Paris has Brocklebank Line. She was bullt despatch says that the Poles have that every effort will be made been transferred to the front and in 1921. been given a breathing space to to enrol all foreigners in France has been relleved by the Military

Governor of Etrasbourg, W organise long range resistance. In desiring to serve.

The

(4086 tons)

which was sunk on Sept. 6, be-

PARIS, Campinchi foreshado

In the

SOME SUCCESSFUL LONDON, Sept. 11 (Reuter)-The

He says that 16 Ministry of Information announced

PARIS, Sept. 11(Renter).The necessary fo that numerous reports of opera- had been received and that it was am this morning in Paris, but franer Naval

ven at strnction of n tions against German Submarines air raid strens sounded at 4.15 francs, included probable that some were success the all clear signal was ful

4.35 in.

equipping coastal

(Benter)