LITTLE TO REPORT

Evening Star, Issue 23379, 23 September 1939, Page 13

LITTLE TO REPORT

ACTIVITY ON WESTERN FRONT ARTILLERY ACTION ON BOTH SIDES PARIS, September 22. (Received September 23, at 10 a.in.) A communique states: “ There is activity with our contact elements in regions south of Saarbrucken and east of the river Blies, also artillery action by both sides on the front. PITIFUL SCENES EVACUATION OF AACHEN MEAGRE FOOD SUPPLIES AVAILABLE BRUSSELS, September 22. (Received September 23, at 8 a.m.) Pitiful scenes accompany the evacuation of the older inhabitants'of Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelie). The police were forced to intervene three times before it was possible to separate tearful families at the station platforms. Rationing was enforced at Aachen before the war, but families were already unable to procure the meagre amounts detailed on the cards. The arrival of troops waiting to be sent to the Saar front is making the situation worse. The Berlin radio has announced that German school children must learn by heart significant passages from Hitler’s Danzig speech, especially those against Britain. DUTCH PRECAUTIONS STRENGTHENING OF FRONTIER NEW DEFENCE LINES CONSTRUCTED AMSTERDAM, September 22. (Received September 23, at 8 a.m.) ; The i, British . United Press .reports that, despite German denials of any intention to violate Dutch neutrality, Holland is pressing on with the fortifications on the eastern / frontier. Three defence lines are being' constructed with the object of forming a better barrier than the present methods of mining bridges and bringing down trees on the main roads. The southern part of the frontier cannot be flooded os in the case of the north and centre, but large reservoirs are being constructed that would be filled with water in the event of an invasion. The inhabitants of the large eastern towns expect to be evacuated. Signposts and other indicators have been removed at crossroads near the frontier; GERMAN TRANSATLANTIC GABLE CUT BY BRITAIN LONDON, September 22. (Received September 23, at 10 a.m.) The German wireless announces that Britain cut the German transatlantic cable five days after the outbreak of war, thus repeating the tactics of 1914. The station declared that Germany was not worried if Britain was afraid of it spreading the truth, because Germany could reach the world while it dominated the ether. WARSAW STILL HOLDS OUT HEMIC DEFENDERS LONDON, September 22. (Received September 23. at 11 a.m.) The Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press asserted that the real battle for Warsaw has not yet started. The Polish defenders are still counterattacking, vainly endeavouring to break through the German lines investing the suburbs. The Poles are holding out in the Gdynia area and also between the Vistula and Bug Rivers. Reich industry will absorb 240,000 Polish prisoners. Milk is prohibited for adults after September 25. EXODUS OF FOREIGNERS PERMITTED BY GERMAN COMMAND LONDON, September 22. (Received September 23, at noon.) The Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press the German Command has permitted about 1,000 foreign consuls, attaches, and business men to leave Warsaw overnight by specified roads.