REFUGEES RAIDED
The first raid occurred at the Warsaw station and the train was attacked four more times before it crossed the frontier near Riga. Planes swooping down low over the train necessitated two halts and the passengers lay down in the adjacent woods.
BOMBING OF TRAIN LOW-FLYING PLANES PLIGHT OF CRACOW LOSS OF THOUSAND LIVES i —- (Heed. Sopt. 11, 10 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 9. A report from Paris says that the Germans bombed and machine-gun-ned a refugee train, according to Le Soir’s correspondent at Basle.
Once two Polish planes appeared and engaged the attackers in violent combat, shooting down, two German machines.
The refugees were 36 hours without food.
The correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain reports from Lublin that the crews of seven German aircraft landed there on Friday, declaring: “We do not want to fight for Hitler.”
The planes and aviators were interned.
Refugees from Cracow report that bombs wrecked b)ock.s of flats killing 1000 people.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20039, 11 September 1939, Page 5
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