Polish Troops Digging In

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20037, 8 September 1939, Page 7

Polish Troops Digging In

GUNS PUNISH RAIDING PLANES Grim Fight Still Waged By Danzig Men BRITISH FORCES ARRIVING IN FRANCE Germans Claiming Capture of Third of Poland

(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Sept. 7, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 6. The "Warsaw correspondent of the American Associated Press states that the Polish forces are reported to be making a desperate stand west and north of Warsaw after their antiaircraft guns had brought down eight of 70 enemy planes which bombed the capital. Neutral military observers do not believe that the Germans could immediately break the outlying defence lines, although the Nazi advance troops are believed to be only 10 miles away. Reinforced Polish troops have dug in for a desperate defence of the capital and a major battle seems to be impending. An official announcement reiterated that 30 Polisli planes bombed Berlin. A Riga message states that the small garrison of Poles in Danzig harbour continued to hold the munitions depot at Westerplatte in persistent defiance of the guns of the German navy and bombs from aeroplanes. An Independent Cable Service message from Paris says it is announced that British troops are arriving in France, and English aviation is at present reinforcing French' squadrons in France. - To-day’s military communique in Berlin, if correct, indicates that Germany lias seized a third of Poland, including the nation’s richest provinces. The German commander, General Von Brauohitsoh, in his order of the day held Herr Hitler up as a soldier’s model. “Days of great accomplishments lie behind you,’’ lie added. “Now the task is to keep after the enemy. Before you stands as a model of personal courage and stout determination your Fuehrer. Forward to victory.”