WARSAW HURLS DEFIANCE

Evening Star, Issue 23377, 21 September 1939, Page 11

WARSAW HURLS DEFIANCE

City Still Holding Out Russian Advance Another Vital Blow Public Parks Converted Into Burial Grounds WARSAW, September 20. (Received September 21, at 11 a.m.) The radio continues to hurl defiance at the encircling Nazis. Weary-voiced announcers, working in relays, describe each new horror. They admit that the Russian advance is reducing Warsaw to a “ tiny island in a sea pf enemy-occupied areas.” The announcer declared that shells were raining on the city as he spoke. Warsaw’s public parks have been con- ' verted into burial grounds because the cemeteries are full. A German communique announces: “ One of the biggest battles of extermination of all time is proceeding on the curve of the Vistula near Kutn'o. Our troops, who have advanced to the line of Stryj-Lemberg-Brest-Litovsk-Bialystok, will, after destroying the enemy everywhere, retire according to plan to the demarcation line finally laid down by Russia and Germany.” The Germans claim that there is no Polish resistance except south of Warsaw and at the fortress of Modlin. A typhoid epidemic has broken out in Galicia after the destruction of the sanitation system and water supply. The Russians are reported to have bombed the Polish town of Buczazc. More than 3,000 Polish infantrymen crossed . the IJzosk Pass in bitter cold, bearing tales of the terror instituted by roving bands of Ukrainians and White Russians, who are sweeping the countryside. More than 20,000 civilians are now taking refuge in Hungary. They present a most pitiful sight. Among them are scantily-clad children, many of whom the Hungarian soldiers ' wrapped in their greatcoats.