OCCUPATION OF WARSAW

Evening Star, Issue 23384, 29 September 1939, Page 7

OCCUPATION OF WARSAW

PRMAILY TO-DAY GERMAN HIGH COMMAND STATEMENT BERLIN, September 28. (Received September 29, at 11 a.m.) A High Command communique says Warsaw will be occupied as soon as the arrangements are completed, probably to-morrow, _________ GERMAN TROOPS CROSSING DEMARCATION LINE . " ACCORDING TO PLAN " BERLIN, September 26. (Received September 29, at 11.30 a.m.) The bulk of the German troops have crossed the demarcation line “ according to plan.”

FORTRESS OF MODUS MO TO SMIEHBH BERLIN, September 28. (Received September 29, at 11.30 a.m.) A High Command communique states that the Modlin fortress has offered to surrender. RUSSIAN PRINCE ARRESTED TAKEN IV SOVIET INVADERS MOSCOW, September 28. (Received September 29, at 1 p.m.) prince Leo Radsiwill was arrested by the Soviet authorities in his castle in White Russia, according to the ' Rravda.’

POLITICAL AMNESTY GERMAN COMMUNISTS RELEASED BERLIN, September 28. (Received September 29, at 1 p.in.) It is reliably stated that Thaelmann and several of his party comrades have been released as a result of the new Russian-German co-operation. TERRIBLE SUFFERING APPALLING CASUALTY LISTS ONLY ONE CENTRE STILL HOLDING OUT WARSAW, September 28. (Received September 29, at 1 p.m.) A defence communique announcing that the capitulation negotiations were concluding, says 16,000 soldiers and 20,000 civilians had been wounded l . The lack of food was cruelly felt, and the command, not wishing to increase the super-human suffering of the civilians, and taking into account the lack of munitions, decided on capitulation on conditions.

Hel is the only centre now holding out. There is some desultory fighting elsewhere. The Soviet’s gunboats will patrol the Vistula, Bug, and Saa Rivers. FAKE INTERVIEW SMIfiLY'RYOZ AND RUMANIAN WIST (British Official Wirelew.) RUGBY, September 28. (Received September 29, at 11 a.m.) Much play was made recently on the German and Russian wireless with an interview alleged to have been given by Marshal Smigly-Rydz to a Rumanian priest, When he was supposed to have said that he wished to come to terms with Germany on the second day of the war, and only decided to fight on under pressure from Britain. It is learnt from an official Polish source that this alleged interview never took place, and that the statement attributed to Marshal Smigly-Rydz was a pure invention, POLISH REFUGEES FUNDS FROM AMERICAN R€D CMSS WASHINGTON, September 28. (Received September 29, at 10 a.m.) The Red Cross has cabled 25,000d0i to the International Red Cross to aid Polish refugees, of whom there are 23.000 in Rumania, 25,000 in Hungary, 11.000 in Lithuania, and an unspecified number in Latvia. HUNGARIAN FRONTIER SOVIET TROOPS TAKE UP POSITIONS i l * . BUDAPEST, September 28. '(Received September 29, at 11.30 a.m.) Soviet troops reached the Hungarian frontier. They exchanged courtesies with the Hungarians and took up their positions.