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Through barbed wire strung on metal stakes the French troops march up to the grass-sown hilltop beneath which are the vast subterranean works of the Maginot Line.

Intensity of Fire Doubled FRENCH POUND SIEGFRIED LINE

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH”

PARIS, Sept. 26 (UP).—French messages reported that heavy artillery fire has splintered some of the German fortifications in the Rhine- land, and that a Nazi counter-attack has been repulsed. Also, that the civil evacuation of East Saarbruecken has been speeded up.

the tyre

with the TEETH

Estonia Fears Invasion As Demands Reportedly Made

PANIC

AMONG

SOVIET

NEIGHBOURS MOUNTING

(SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH") NEW YORK, Sept. 27 (UP).— Assertions, denials, counter-assertions and counter-denials are following each other with bewildering rapidity from the capitals of the panic-stricken coun- tries whose borders are defended from direct invasion by Soviet Russia only by pitifully inadequate but nevertheless determined soldiers.

“JITTERS" IN BALTIC

Tension in Rumania and the Baltic countries has reached the "jittery" stage as reports are made of big con- centrations of Russian troops.

message has added to the

A London

confusion.

It claims that the Soviet has obtained French communique No. 46 says: "An early, Germany's "collaboration" in plan to earmark morning surprise attack was repulsed on the Lauter the eastern Balkan countries as a Russian sphere front. There was activity by the enemy artillery in of influence. the region south of Zweibruecken and south of Pirmu- sens."

It is reported that there is U-BOAT CAMPAIGN fighting in the area extending from Snarbruecken to the Rhine.

The Germans have raised a new type of eaptive balloon defences, which have been named the "Acril reported Seinfried Line." It is

that they are electrically wired so

SILESIA SINKING

That the ground crew can explode Alarm And Indignation

3

them, destroying nearby planes.

In Scandinavia There has been brisk aerial activity alalong the Sauntruecken and Laus!.

~LONDON, Sept:~26-(Reuteriz ter fronts, the French claiming wo víztories over Nozi combat squadrons, -The torpedoing of the Swedish It is anderstood that Se French steamer Silesia (1,800 ton) has have taken advantage of recent guns enused fresh alarm and indigna- doubling the intensity of the fire, with tion in the Scandinavian coun- what is unoßietally" reported to be tries, visibly destructive effect on

to set up advanced artillery positions,

Selgfried positions."

Dawn Assault Repulsed

PARIS, Sept. 20

the i Nineteen of the crew were picked

jup by mother Swedish vessel.

The Siles is the third Scandina- vian steamer to be sunk by Nazi (Reuter)This marines in the last few days. evening's official communique records. No more crllulose, wood pulp and activity by enemy artillery in the timbers to be exported from the region south of Zweibrucken and north, and exporters are to lake south of Permanens.

At dawn on assault was repulsed

on the letter front,

Nazi H.Q, Claim

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

steps to meet the U-boat campaign shipping their products overland

nt Norwegian ports for Britals.

This will entall a 20 per cent in- ferense in costs.

It wont pulp supplies continue to BERLIN, Sept. 28 (UP)The be sunk by U-boats, Sweden's trade German High Command claims two will almost be at a standstill. for French balloons and five French air-wood pulp constitutes half of planes have been brought down en ports, Nine-tenths of this goes to the Western Front.

Artillery fire on the Rhineland front to-day was "followed by advance guard skirmishes" the report states. It charges that French planes flow over Belgian soll.

Neutral Observations PARIS, Sept. 20 Router)-The Paris radio announced that accord- ing to neutral observers, a very large part of the German armies that operated in Poland have now been transferred to the Western Front.

Reporta of concentrations of German troops at Aix-la-Chapelle and the Black Forest appeared to be confirmed, although no information was

regarding their

available

Britain,

her

Today's Scandinavian newspapers devoted much space to criticizan of

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NAZI

PEACE

MOVE

Initiative This Week, Report

PRESS"

strength,

URGENT. "UNITED Alx-la-Chapelle and other towns FLASHES WERE RECEIVED BY near the Siegfried Line had been THE TELEGRAPH AT 3.15 P.M. nimost completely evacuated.

THIS AFTERNOON, INDICATING Acording to the same source, work THAT GERMANY IS SEEKING TO In procceding day and night to END THE WAR WITH GREAT strengthen the defence system be- BRITAIN AND FRANCE. tween Merzig, Saarbrucċken, and

A "United Press" message, from Wissemburg, concrete gun pits being Parle reports that Information has constructed, and blockhouses and reached diplomatio quarters there shelters being hurriedly erected. that Herr Hitler Is Initiating, a move- Fierce Bombardmont, ment to bring about a couration of

hosttilties.

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FARIS, Sept. 26 (Reuter).—"Le A confirmatory Inessage from Matin" commenting on the Western Berlin, received shortly afterwards, Front Aghing, says that Intensive quotes Informed quarters there a German artillery fire on one sector expressing the belief that Germany not likely to presage a large-scale will take the initiative in approach- attack, in view of the fact that the ing the Allies for the purpose of ancy will have to cross the Rhine bringing about peace. and then come up against the Maginot

The same quarters express thò ba- Line.

Hef that ́ Italy, will nasoclists feelf The newspaper queries the reason with Berlin in faltiating the movÒ for the fierce bombardment, and for peace, and that motion will be hints that some other operation near taken jointly by the two Telalliartan

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Fears are aroused in London over the fate of Estonia, Rumania and possibly Bulgaria.

The Soviet is unofficially reported to have made two demands, having the character of an ultimatum, in Estonia.

SOVIET "SUGGESTIONS"

Russia, it is reported, claims the right to establish a naval base off Finland, and has made "suggestions" re- garding Estonia's foreign trade.

The Estonian Foreign Minister, M. Selter, to whom- the demands are reported to have been made, has re-

turned hurriedly to Tallinn,

21 hours after his arrival in Moscow.

Relations between Estonia and Soviet Russia are described by the official Soviet "Tass" News Agency as "strained."*

A meeting of the joint Parliamen-

tary Committee was called in Estonia

Immediately after the Foreign Minis- ter returned.

BALT

"Kur

FINLAND

The Baltic countries, including main railways; crossing the

Russian frontier,

The meeting lasted for five hours, during which, it was subsequently announced, Estonian foreign policy and defence problems were discussed. It was also announced that M. Selter will return Moscow to-day discussions He will re-open be accompanied the President of the Estonian Parliament, Professor Utos, the International Jurist, Pro- fessor Plip, and the Estonian Minis- ter to Moscow, M. Auguste Ile.

Wild Rumours in Balkans.... Meanwhile, the wildest rumoure are being circulated in Bucharest and elsewhere in the Balkans re- pomible: fate of

BALTIC STATES

FINLAND, Proclaimed independent December 6, 1917. Arca 134.557 square miles. Population 3,667,000. Army (including Air Force and Coast Defence) 33,000. One year's compulsory ser vice. Civic Guards (volun- teers).100,000, Navy: two coastal defence ships, four gunboats, seven motor tor- pedo-boats, three mine. layers, five submarines,

ESTONIA. Proclaimed

independent.February. 1918. Area 18,353 square miles. Population 1,126,413, Army 11,000 (mobilisable 90,000). Compulsory ser- vice 18 months, Airplanes 68. Navy: One torpedo-boat. four gunboats, two sub- marines.

LATVIA. Proclaimed in- dependent November, 1918. Area 25,395 square miles. Population 1,950,500. Army 25,000 Air Force 550 men; 80 airplanes. Compulsory service of 15 months. Navy: Two submarines, four coast defence ships.

LITHUANIA.-Proclaimed independent February, 1918. Area 20,299 square miles. Population 2,400,000. Army 22,500. Air Force 1,520 Auxiliary Force 52,000. Compulsory ser vice 11⁄2 years. Navy: One patrol vessel.

men.

MYSTERY NAVAL BATTLE REPORTS PERSISTENT

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

OSLO, Sept. 26 (UP)-Civilians at Christiansand report haying witnessed a naval battle this morning.

They assert that three battle- ships or cruisers were visible off

A CITY of 500,000 civilians and 100,000 soldiora burrowing deep into the earth to escape the rain of death from Naxi guns and plancs;

Public parks turned into common gravoyardı, where hundreds of

bodies are buried in constant procession daily;

"Human bullets"-men who have joined, "death aquads" of unarmed soldiers to sacrifice. their lives in order to stop Naxi tanks from ontoring the city.

These are high-lights in the most romarkable story yat brought from bosloged Warsaw-the story of a Chinese refugee who succeeded in leaving there on September 21, two days after

Below a the German bombardment started.

SURVIVOR TELLS WARSAW DRAMA

(SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH”)

STETTIN, Sept. 27 (Domei).-The first refugee from besieged Warsaw-one of 150 consular representatives who were able to leave the devastated Polish capital during a four-hour truce has arrived here with a graphic word picture of conditions in the city since the terrific German bombardment commenced.

The refugee is Mr. Po Hsi-yin, | Manchukuoan Consul General in Warsaw. He arrived here to day, after an adventurous trip across Poland,

The evacuation of the consular re- presentatives was offreted on Sept-

NAZIS SAY END NEAR

ember 21-three days after the Nazi "Courageous" Hand-to-

bombardiment began.

"When I left the capital; the Polish troops were lighting desperately with their backs to the wall," he said.

Fight To Last

Hand Fighting

OPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" BERLIN, Sept. 26 (UP).-As

"Varsaw was honeycombed with a climax to a three weeks' sicge, tank traps and barbed-wire en German troops have now entered tanglements, manned by three divi-the fringe of Warsaw, a German slons of Felish soldiers who ex- High Command communique. -press-their-determination to atstated to-day.

to the Inat man.

"Although many of Warsaw's nor- The Germans claim le capture of mai population of 1,300,000 had suc-Fort Mokotowski, which is only ve ceeded in fleeing before the arrival miles from the centre of the city, as of the Germans, between,400,000, and well as a section of the surrounding 500,000 were still besieged in the city strict "after courageous hand to when I left. They included tens of hand Aghting." thousands of women and children.

The entry followed the fullure of "Because of the incessant half of the German efforts to convince the shells and bonibs from Nar! guns

Pobial commander of the horrible

and planes, the entire population uselessness of resistance," the com-

munique sald.. is lying underground in cellars.

The Germans admit that fierce "The Manchukuoan consular staff took refuge in the basement of the fighting is continuing in the suburbs ollees of the Japanese military at-of the Polish capital, but are firmly tache, where, until our departure, we the opinion that the fall of the

elty is near,

Reds Go Lyrical There is a serious shortage of food in Warsaw.

MOSCOW, Sept. 20 (Reuter)-A lyrical description is given by a PLEASE Turn To Page 2.

The coast, that airplane motors TERROR BY lived on canned food and rise,

were audible and that nearly a dozen freighters gought shelter near shore to avoid the battle.

It was not possible to see the details of the fight.

GESTAPO Subjugation Of The Czechs

Parks Become Graveyards

"The city's beautiful parks have. because of the terrible slaughter of; civilians, been turned into cemeter-

·les, and a constant procession of dead soldiers and civilians brought here day and night for burial.

SPECIAL TO THE "TELCORAPH“ PARIS, Sept. 26, (Reuter).- First-hand, collaboration of re-the

"The Poles are putting up one of

goliant resistanceo

most

to

Short Engagement. COPENHAGEN, Sept. 20 (Reuter).. A naval engagement, in which war- ships, including submarines and alr craft participated, took place in the North Sea, according to an uncon- firmed report from Listerfjord and ports of unsettlement in Czecho-invasion the world has ever known. Farsund on the southern tip of Slovakia was given on arrival Norway.

here by M. Schramek, head of It is stated that the action began at the Czecho-Slovakian Catholics, noon and ended. nt i p.m. to-day.

and former Prime Minister of Czecho-Slovakia,

was

t

Conflicting Reports

He escaped secretly over the Polish frontier, accompanied by M

LATEST

"STILL MORE TERRIBLE”

:

(Reuter)

"Because ammunition supplies LONDON, Sept. 27 are running short, hundreds of young Polish warriors are offering Yesterday was the 21st day of the themselves as human bulletssiege of Warmw, and a message re- their only weapons their hatred of selved in London last night said that the German Invaders and their last 24 hours had been, if any racial consciousness.

thing, still more terrible, "with the OSLO, Sept. 20 (Reuter)-The

"The death squads" are formed of exception of a two-hour period,” Norwegian Admiralty states that what

The message ranı “We are under- was taken to be sounds of gunareala, vice-President of the National ten human bullets apiece. off the Norwegian coast on Monday Solidarity Party, the only party These unarined squads hurt them-going continuous raids by 200 planes

allowed by the Germans in Bohemia selves against any German tank that and

shelling by heavy artillery. actually an "explosion of and Moravia...

jattempts to penetrate the Polith lines. Incendiary bomba have started hun- [dynamite."

M. Schramsk, in

waler Is dréde・・of ́ ́ fres. Though scarce, tho olvilian population. Torchos As Weapons

10 stated that when he left Prague the

fighing the flanica barofcally, Government was no more than a

"Their weapons are gasolens-

Horses killed by shellfire aro mockery. The Gestapo was in abso- fute control, carrying out a reign of -soaked torches, which they hurt in, butchered immediately and most dis

to the tankam,"

tributed."CONN Bunda tuulegoa terror, and even. In moderate, circles

This is the first news received Ur. The Manchukuonn consular stoff, exasperation was nearing Lolling

together with about 100 other diplo- London from Warsaw for MOSOLY ngint.

"I am not at att surprised at the inats, were able to evacuate Warsaw hours.

Another Warsaw mesengo says that revolt which took place a few days on September 21 during a four-hour

truce, which was arranged' botween 02 'members of the Soviet EmbaRRY ago," he declared,

the Norwegian Minister, the Warsaw left Warsaw yesterday under · safo

Eye-witnesses on the islands west of Bergen, however, state that they heard the thunder of guns and enw ships moving northward.

Reports Dosled

OSLO, Sept. 26 (Reuler)—Reports from Lister Font and. Farsund of naval battle in the North Sea are described as untrue."

Soccer Tourists Back In Colony

an interview.

Spread Of Conflict

Feared In Rome

Commander-in-Chief and the German conduct through the Polish-German

Army.

lines,

GERMAN GUNS FIRE INTO BELGIAN TERRITORY

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH** TOKYO, Sept. 26 (Domel)—A The South China football tourists Romo despatch to the "Japan Times" who have been on a tour of the South claims that Hallan political circles! Seus returned to Hongkong this believe that the rejection of Mus garding

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” morning from Manila. The players solini's "peace" overtures has in- speak of the good time they have creased the danger of an extension Rumania.

DRUSSELS, Sept. 20 (Router)-Four projectiles exploded Heavy reinforcements of Soviet, and though on the whole the of the conflict.

tour has been very strenuous they Political circles in Rome belleve over a mile Inside-Belgian territory when Germnu anti-aircraft 'guglal verlou troops are reported from

profess to have enjoyed themselves that the conflict may not only spread fired on planes near the frontler to-day, PLEASE Turn To Page: 2.

thoroughly,

stup

in Europe, but may also affect Asia.