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SOVIET TROOPS INVADE POLAND

RUSSIANS MARCH INTO STRICKEN COUNTRY TO "PROTECT INTERESTS” Invasion Starts 24 Hours After U.S.S.R. Tears Up Pact Of Non-Agg ression With Warsaw

OLLAND

DENMARK

Berlin o

SILE

LITHUANIA

Warsaw

SANEMIA CROPLAND

AUSTRIA

GERMAN FRONTIER

RUMANIA

Bucarest

OF

1914

Special To The "Telegraph"

Fierce Battle On The Saar Front

NAZIS RUSH UP

REINFORCEMENTS

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

PARIS, Sept. 16 (UP).—An official French war communique announces that the Germans are heavily reinforcing the western front.

It announces intensive artillery activity and claims that the Germans are abandoning considerable terrain, including villages, which they are destroying before retreating.

"There is great activity both

POLAND HAS BEEN INVADED BY SOVIET FORCES. AN URGENT "UNITED PRESS" MESSAGE FROM with artillery and other elements BERLIN CONFIRMS THAT SOVIET TROOPS MARCHED ACROSS THE BORDER AT 4 A.M. SOVIET TIME (10 A.M. HONGKONG TIME).

GERMAN APPROVAL

The invasion is stated to have occurred with the knowledge and full approval of the German Government

The D.N.B. (German Official News Agency), announcing the invasion, states that the Soviet Government has informed POLAND, which disappeared from the map of Europe for Germany that she intends to maintain neutrality in the European

conflict, despite the invasion of Polish territory.

sevan conturias, re-appeared as a result of the Great War. Her

territories ware carved from Russia and Germany. Gorman

territory was west of the line shown in this map; Russian territory oast of the map.

Poles Refuse To Surrender City

DESTRUCTION OF

The Russian Note adds that all Russian treaties with Poland, Icluding the Russo-Polish Non-Aggression Pact, are cancelled, since ["Polish State is no longer regarded as being in existence." |ULTIMATUM ON SATURDAY

in

the

furious assaults of a score of diving, strang German plance.

to

German reinforcements attempted dislodge the French from the newly of contact on the entire front.

conquered vital hills overlooking the "The enemy is being cease-Siegfried line

fortresses at Saar- lessly reinforced before us,

Duppenweller. ched French machine gun-

and

While omitting specific details of the French action, it taken to inners met the German attack and dicate the intensity of the attacks as the French artillery blasted the Ger- well as the fact that the German man tank formations.

The Germans used massed forma- couner-drive has been redoubled in

tions for the first time on the western front but reports said it only resulted Hin increased loss that after each

The report

the past 24 hours.

the

wave of attackers was broken, the French charged with bayonets and forced the Germans back.

Tanks Effective Unofficial reports state that French are making most effective use of their tanks to cover the in- fantry and are hammering the Ger- man lines, while their arullery · is constantly pounding the fortifed German points,

The continued German withdrawal confirms the failure of the Reichwehr artillery to halt the advance.

General Gomelin reports that he is most satisfied with the resistance the south bank of the Sear. French advance units is giving to the

A large-scale German counter-at-

Siegfried Lines In Action

LONDON, SEPT. 16 (Reuter). -A semi-omcial review says the French and the defenders of the that Siegfried positions are at grips and are disputing the forward works of the German fortified line on the

Germen are as well as the action tack was made on the rugged plateau of his own big guns, which is suc- which, between the River Nied and ceeding in systematically silencing the Warndt Forest, dominates Sarre-

the German artillery at all major louis. points of attack and forcing the de- fence forces to relire.

Thus, bit by bit, successive com- [muniques announce more or less in- portant engagements around the cen-

Mass Formations Late Last Night it was reported that

LONDON, Sept. 16 (Reuler)tral Saar region

tanks and infantry tried to smash the three mass formations of German

WARSAW THREAT Ambassador in Moscow, M. Groybowski, a Note informing him that Soviet French lines her er besten Sour

LONDON, Sept. 16 (Reuter).-The Nazi radio in Berlin announces that the Germans have presented a 12-hour ultimatum calling on Warsaw to surrender.

Leaflets conveying, the ultimatum were dropped over Warsaw at 3.10 yesterday afternoon.

Special to "Telegraph" cers said they had made this lost BERLIN, SEPT. 16. (Up).~ to Warsaw

effort to transmit a written demand when all other means The D.N.B. (Official German had failed. News Agency) reports that the Complete Destruction

Polish commander of the War-

Is Ordered saw garrison has refused the SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" German demand for the surren- Radio hermosoed this WAY PARIS, Sept 18 (UP)——Munich der of the city.

|will be considéred a combái sono st Following the refusal, the report 3 am, and will be completely des calme, German planea scattered tray by airplanes and arilllery bom-

illions of handbills over the Polish bardinents.

pital demanding, firstly, the

within

sur-

twelve

ader of the city

ars and, secondly, the surrender

the

Polish

troops within the city.

The handbills stated that, in the

Striking Success Against Subs

e of the demands being met, the Kurrender should be communicated the nearest German command, Should they not be accepted the geant" reports that it is unimcially

PARIS, Sept. 18 (UP). "L'Intrans ivilian population of Warsaw would learned that the Alles have sunk two

be given twelve hours in which to Nazi U-Boats and have captured eight save the city by the roads to Diedlce others. Ind Garwolin,

"If this report is correct it indicates All Ita Consequencer

that the war on the U-Boats is meet- ing with striking success. The total After twelve hours, the handbilis Nazi U-Boat fleet does not number tated, in the event of the demands more than 80 vessels. eing refused, the entire area would

e treated as a battle area, with all

consequences.

The handbills were dropped at 3.10

The events leading up to this latest drama in the European conflict started on Saturday, when the Soviet Government handed to the Polish

forces would cross the frontier into Poland at 4 a.m. on Sunday. ENTIRE BORDER INVADED

near Saarbrucken. battle took place near villago of Nieder, half-way between Luxemburg and Saarbrucken.

The attacking Germana were:

Fighting in the lower valley of the Nied is taking place on the right band of the stream, which passes Bouzonville

and meanders with sharp curves across a plateaui strewn with little woods, Major Interest The eastern rim of this plateau do- of that same year. in 1933 Russia driven back by the French despite minates the alley of the Saar, form- ing a balcony on which artillery can signed the London protocol, defining heavy ahelling.

1934 the Russo-

German aeroplanes dived low and batter Saarelouis and the whole Val- The Soviet Note informed Poland that Russian an aggressor. In

Pact

the heights wasmachine-gunned the French positions. ley of the Saur and Polish Non-Aggression troops would march in across the entire Russo-Polish prolonged for ten years

and was but the French withheld the assault situated on the other side of the the real Siegfried frontier, from Polozk in the north to Kamenzpolodsk in

the south

The decision to invade Poland was taken, the Note further added, in "order to protect the interests of the USSR., and in order to protect the Russian Ukrainian minorities.

Intervention May Draw Soviets Into The War

SPECIAL TO THE ""TELEGRAPH"

PARIS, Sept. 16 (UP),—A warning that the Soviets would be plunged into à general war in Eastern Europe if she joined the Reich attack on Poland, was sounded in Paris to-day as France awaited a clarification of the Moscow position.

conciliation convention in November

again re-affirmed last November in newly-dug trenches and are still river, on which afler Munich-by A communique maintaining their positions on the Line is built.

published simultaneously at Moscow hills. and Warsaw.

This is the first time that the Ger- mans have come over in mass-forma-

Mentioning this series of accords tion. the French press expressed the opinion: I dincult to belleve man tank formations, and the French French artillery shattered the Ger-

that this dossier, by Soviet initiative, broke and drove back the infantry is to be reduced to a collection of attack with bayonet charges. scraps of paper."

Hands Now Free

Villages Destroyed

A French communique issued last | night states that the Germans have LONDON, Sept. 18 (Reuter) destroyed certain villages as they re- When the Soviet concluded her non-ired. There is great artillery activi- aggression pact with Germany, aftery on both sides over the whole front turning down the Turko-British offer and the Germans sending up of collaboration in a mutual assist- reinforcemente,

was ance pact, the general bellef that the was senking to have her hands free in the Far East.

One

are

Unceasing Reinforcement

Major Objective

The enemy therefore has a major interest in stemming French progress here before the French reach the rim of the plateau.

LATEST

German Goods Seized On Ship

A communique states there wis great activity by the artillery on both sides yesterday and by units in But, as events have moved

sofcontact upon the whole front. rapidly since then, it is not altogether The enemy is unceasingly sending surprising to find the Soviets enter-up reinforcements opposite our lines. ing an armistice with Japan, which At several points he has abandoned It is suggested, may be followed by and destroyed certain of his villages a non-aggression Pact, leaving Mosas he retired. Heuter.

Three thousand packages of alleg- ed contraband were seized in Hong- cow with her hands free in Europe.

kong during the week-end agard the The suggestion implied in the re-

Danish East Aalaile Company's steam- The French anxiously awaited the Soviet Pact of Non-Aggesalon Soviet was staking a claim in Poland, French objectives appears to be to arrived in port from Hamburg

cent "Pravda” artició was that the

of the immediate major er Malays, shortly after the vessel concrete indications as to which with Poland would remain valid.

where they allege there are nearly continue possession of both the Saar way Moscow will turn.

General War?

and 10,000,000 Ukrainians

White River, banks, centered

The packages consist mainly of iron "Petit Parisien," which often ex-Russians.

on Saar- and steel goods, consigned to Shang- The press is filled with specu-presses omcial opalon, warned that

bruecken, where the Germans are hal. The Malaya salled this after- n this connection there are

two stubbornly realating, although al-non for Shanghal, lation on the "equivocal" Soviet the use of the Soviet forces against possibilities: attitude.

ready forced back to a point where Poland would oblige Rumania,

Firstly, there by

may have been an the heavy industry and mines have, Paris Uneasiness

virtue of her treaty alliance with the agreement with Germany in respect been made useless, had latter, to intervene and would draw to the partition of Poland. By mid-day, the uneasiness

Secondly, Moscow is alarmed at increased as the result of reports Moscow into an extended war in the

feel the spede of the German victory and

↑ LONDON, Bent. 18 (Renter).--do- The German Command also sent a BERLIN, Sept. 18 (UP)--The Ger- Japan tó forestall an attack on her threatened, notably Turkey.

that Moscow had made a deal with chat, for all the Balkans would

PARIS, Sept, 18. cording to à cable received by the "Russia, by entering a generalized may be preparing to back up her

claims to certain territories if the Military dispatches say that war's Polish Embamy from Birs. · Polish ith a written: demand for the sur- of using mustard gas, and of violating} at two points on the west front, and all the anti-Comintern power. Nor German advance is gushed too far.biggest battle is being waged on the troops are resisting the Russian in-

conniet, will provoke the grouping of

western in the loop formed by the do All-Purpose Measure

Nied River, the center sector being between

the Moselle River The mobilisation of four million Saarbruecken soldiers is in keeping with either defenses in the German hills, alternative, and can be regarded as

The attacking Germans were hurled Judicially, the Soviets in Poland an all-purpose measure to cover back, despite the terride shelling of should be bound by a series of pacta every eventuality, while it is sign their supporting batteries, plus the which should have forestalled ficant that Germany seems to be as aggression. The Russo-Polish Non- much in the dark and uneasy about Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PENCT Aggression accord signed in Moscow the Soviet attitude as the rest of the at 1 and 3. Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria, Hongkong. in July, 1982, was completed by the world.

un, from which time the twelve-

our deadline. was presumably

alculated.

POISON GAS ACCUSATION

erman spokesman through the linesman High Command accuses the Poles rear while she concentrated troops

way for movements of

Against

any French brought forward

troops.

Soviet 2 21102}clude several of her former allles."

Argu-

Broken Treaties

ender of Warsaw. The spokesman the international convention prohibit- has used newspapers to prepare the has Germany any interest in seeing sparted from the German lines sting the use of gas. m, and arrived at the Polish In-

formed such a bloc, which might in- antry lines at 8.30 ..

It declares that two were killed and 12 wounded when a gas mine x-ments: firstly, it was against Russon Ultimatum Rejected.

ploded while engineers were remov- The Germans

request was coming the barrier on the Jasiolka Bridge

the London interest to

to attack-despite maniosied to the Folah Conmmander near Jaslo on September 8,

deal with Hitler where- rumours of in Warmw, who gave his reply an Experts in Berlin Immediately in by the Soviets will have a free hand hour and a half later, mying that he | vestigated

and determined that on the Baltic coast-secondly, Rus irpuld not receive the spokesman. mustard gas was actually used, the sila would be plunged into a general *as D.N.B. states that German ofl. 'Nazi report alleges.

eastern European war; and, thirdly,

War's Biggest Battle

and

POLES RESIST.