WARSAW SURRENDERS AFTER HEROIC STAND

Evening Star, Issue 23383, 28 September 1939, Page 11

WARSAW SURRENDERS AFTER HEROIC STAND

CITY REDUCED TO SMOKING RUINS Merciless Destruction by Shells and Bombs SCENES OF INDESCRIBABLE MISERY TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE KILLED SINCE MONDAY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright T . • ( NEW YORK, September 27. (Received September 28, at 10.30 a.m.) The Berlin correspondent of the United Press says it is officially announced that Warsaw has capitulated unconditionally. A Warsaw message, headed “ Twenty-second Day of Siege,” states that Warsaw endured an unspeakable inferno m the last 24 hours. Bombing was almost continuous, coupled with heavy artillery fire. Incendiary bombs increased the number of fires, which were increasingly difficult to combat because of lack of water. •Crowds of refugees escaping from the burning and destroyed buildings through the bomfied streets were killed and wounded by thousands. Scenes of indescribable misery became a daily routine. The troops, fighting with marked heroism, successfully repulsed the enemy. Warsaw is being destroyed methodically, one district after another. The spirit of the population is unshaken and their heroism is wonderful; The city hopes against hope that there will be a reply to her SOS for . assistance, and that she will receive ultimate deliverance so that her sacrifice, unprecedented throughout history, will not have been in vain. The citizens killed since noon on Monday total 2,000. Epidemics are feared. Shells destroyed the last ' 'standing hospital. The city is almost razed to the ground. Communications within the city have broken down owing to fires everywhere.

The ‘ Manchester Guardian/ commenting on Warsaw’s resistance, said: “ To find that, instead of help, we can only give our admiration is a terrible wound to our pride and our conscience.”