POLES MAKING STAND

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20039, 11 September 1939, Page 7

POLES MAKING STAND

“Will Yet Start Offensive” PRESENT RETREAT STRATEGIC Advance by Germans in the South CIVILIAN EVACUATION OF SAARBRUCKEN (Elec. Tel. Copyright.—United “Press Assn.) (Reed. Sept. 9,-2.30 rpim.) LONDON, Sept. 8. The Budapest correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says .that Warsaw to-night . broadcast the following statement: “Tire Polish army will yet start an offensive. The present retreat -is strategic. The war will continue long for the Poles will not capitulate,' but will fight to the finish. 'Our air fleet is intact as the world will soon realise.” Still later the Warsaw wireless announced that life continued normally without panic. A further Budapest message quoted a radio broadcast from Lwow stating: ‘.'The populations of the villages must prepare • for their defence behind barricades. Men, women and children must take up arms against the invaders and fight, in the defence with' bare hands if necessary. , The Germans eagerly await news of the fall of Warsaw. They already have received a premature announcement of it, but subsequent messages showed that the Lord Mayor of Warsaw spoke >by radio from Warsaw two hours later and "'asked the people to dig trenches and prepare the defence of j the city. y The German advance along the Tomasow-ftawa-Warsaw road was effected with .the aid of armoured ear units, enabling them to reach a point 25 miles from Warsaw, taking prisoners the remnants of a Polish division and capturing artillery. A German communique claims that smooth progress is being made by subsidiary forces on the eastward advance into southern Poland towards the San River, Which flows .through the famous city of Przemysl, north-north-west to the Vistula -River, whither, it is asserted, the Poles were driven back after heavy fighting in the Lysogory mountains east of Ivielce. The pursuers crossed and captured the railway between Konslde, 53 miles south-west of Radom and Opoezno, 70 miles south-south-east of Warsaw. Other German columns threw back the Poles into the south-east suburbs of Lodz. A German force is striking eastward from the Carpathians towards Lnvow with the object of preventing a possible Polisli retreat to Rumania. * The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that Saarbmeken has been completely evacuated by civilians and other Saar towns are following suit. The authorities arc vainly trying to convince, the citizens of Coblenz that there is no war between Germany and Prance. An agency radio announcement from Basle says that Germany is evacuating civilians from the island of Sylt and cities of the Baden province. /