Fall Claimed Inevitable

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20037, 8 September 1939, Page 6

Fall Claimed Inevitable

OPERATIONS AHEAD OF PLANS Reinforcements Sent To Western Front FRENCH HAMMERING SIEGFRIED LINE Paris Appreciative Of Power Of Britain (Klee. T.el. Copyright.—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Sept, 8. 1.50 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 7.

Tire Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press ot Great Britain states that .throe German armies to-day were bearing down on 'Warsaw from the north-west and south and the occupation of the capital was declared inevitable. The German High Command predicted that Lublin, to where the Polish Government is reported to have been transferred, would also soon be within range of the German guns. The military operations are pronounced to lie well ahead of schedule, though regarding England, the German army has been warned that more difficult assignments lie ahead. The Berlin correspondent of the British United Press says it is officially announced that the German .troops have reached Pultusk, 30 miles from: Warsaw. Berlin wireless messages claimed that the German troops were only 191 miles from Warsaw this afternoon. The German High Command to-day reported that 25,000 Polish prisoners had been taken since the invasion, while 126 guns and also tanks and armoured cars, as well as an undetermined number of smaller arms, bad been captured. The Paris correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain reports that it is stated that although the Germans arc half way to Warsaw, via Lodz, the Polish main line fortifications have as yet been untouched. A communique issued in Paris states that the German front between the Rhine and the Moselle Rivers is being reinforced. German reinforcements mere rushed to the northern flank of the Western Front, where the increasing French attack has carried the fighting»to t/lic fringes of .the Saar Basin. The Basle correspondent, of the Associated Press of America says that French heavy artillery hammered the main force of Germany’s Siegfried Line from Aluterbourg to the Saar frontier. Hundreds of thousands of French troops have been moved into position under the protection, of the Maginot Line. A Paris message states that the French Ministry of Information has issued the following statement: “The British help is greater than in 1914. Germany now has no .fleet as a rival for the British fleet and communications, are assured. Britain’s effort in the air has been prodigious. Her conscription is only six months old, but millions of men are on the way. The British Dominions realise the need for the deliverance of the world, from, tyranny that again is apparent. We remember that the Dominions are industrial nations. The enemy is endeavouring to divide Britain and France, but they remember 1914. They were comrades during four years, sharing dangers and then sharing victory. We Frenchmen know by experience that Englishmen abide by their commitments. Wo have confidence in our Allies as they trust us.”