Raids Over Polish Towns

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20033, 4 September 1939, Page 6

Raids Over Polish Towns

WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED Machine-Gunning from the Air INVADERS’ PRESSURE IN CORRIDOR ZONE Extensive Advances On All Fronts Claimed (Klee. T(*l. Copyright—-Unit«d Press Assn.) (Nice. Tel. Copyright-—United Press Assn.) (Kec. Sept. 4, 1.30 p.m.) DON DON. Sept . 3. The Warsaw correspondent oE the United Press of America states 1 hat the Polish Foreign Office has charged German planes with dropping hyperite gas on civilian populations, and bombing and machine-gunning women and children ileeing from I lie at tacked cities. Further Warsaw messages state that 30 persons were killed, including five children. Fifty-eight; persons were killed in an air raid at Dublin. Fight other raids were made yesterday. M’liey included attacks oil Cracow, Kadoni, Poznan, and Warsaw’s airport. The Gorman pressure is increasing in the Corridor province of Pomor/.e. Considerable casualties have been suffered by both sides. Severe fighting' took place south of Zakopane. • The German wireless announces that their forces made extensive advances on all fronts last night, and in the early hours of this morning the Warte River was crossed near Wiolun, which is a railway town in the Dedz province, about .1.0 miles from the frontier. Polish troops reported to be isolated in the Corridor unsuccessfully tried to break through. A later German communique announced the capture of Czestochowa and the troops were swiftly-advancing. The Polish Embassy in Condon denied reports that the Germans had cut the Corridor. s The Berlin correspondent of the United Press of America says that the German army claims to have captured Radomskc. the site of the important Polish airport, GO miles south of Warsaw. The Germans admitted the loss of 21 planes, but claimed to have destroyed 120 Polish planes. A General Staff communique issued at Warsaw claims that the, Poles captured two German armoured trains. The Warsaw correspondent of the United Press of America states that the United States’ Ambassador, Mr. A. J. Drcxcll Biddle, his wife and daughter had a narrow escape when a German plane bombed Air. Middle’s suburban Villa. The United States’ Embassy said it appeared to have been a deliberate attack, since the bombs were released in a low-power dive. Air. Biddle and his family were uninjured. The villa was partially unroofed and ' the windows were shattered. An adjoining villa was destroyed. The Ambassador’s cabled report to President Roosevelt confirms the United Press report. '