Warsaw Alarm

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20032, 2 September 1939, Page 5

Warsaw Alarm

- • • r "'■•l : : SIRENS SOUNDED WAIT FOR RAIDERS START OF OFFENSIVE EXTREME VIOLENCE . , • ■ v (Reed. Sept. 2. 9 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 1. Speaking in Warsaw the spokesman of the Polish Foreign Office stated: “The Germans.started military action - shortly after 7 a.m. at different points of the frontier. This* is'undoubtedly German aggression against Poland. Military action is now developing." - The spokesman was then unable to state exactly where “ the hostilities were occurring. • ; The Warsaw correspondent of the British United Presk says it isatithoritatively learned that the first- German raids began at 4.30 a_.m,_at five unspecified points. • The attacking squadrons apparently were not large and the extent of the ;damage was not known,'. icr

Military circles in Warsaw report that fighting' had begun at Danzig and there was apparently general fighting on most parts of the frontier.

The Paris correspondent of Reuter’s Agency reports that the Germans- beean the' -offensive with....extreme violence on the whole Polish front. .The Warsaw correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says it is unofficially reported that Germans bombed Cracow, Katowice, Czestochowa and also Tczew. : It is officially stated in Warsaw that Germans bombed the railway station at Czew and the town of Typnic and also Putzknearby. 1.: ... The Warsaw .correspondent of the Associated Press ;of America- states that it is reported in Warsaw that Crakow, Katowice, Tc2ew and Czestocohowa were IbombOd by German planes early this morning. Fighting is reported at Danzig. • Warsaw was awakened at 6.20 a.m. by sirens and,an ' air "raid was awaited. / ’ f •

'’’he corresnondent adds that the Germans bombed Warsaw at 9 a.m.

The Polish authorities have .taken over the railway, telephone.and.telegraphic systems. Armed soldiers are riding on the footplates of engines.