CROWDED ROADS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20040, 12 September 1939, Page 5

CROWDED ROADS

PLIGHT OF REFUGEES FLIGHT FROM TOWNS PRESSMAN’S JOURNEY “LONG NASTY TRIP” (Independent Cabje Service.) (Reed. Sept. 12, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 11. The Daily Express correspondent o n the Rumanian-Polish frontier, de ( - scribing how members of the Polish Government, foreign embassies and newspapermen evacuated Warsaw, says it was a long and nasty trip from Warsaw across bridges crammed with small skinny horses pulling low-wheeled carts' piled up with bundles of bedding, clothes and furniture.

Among them shiny, smart limousines belonging to the Government with .staff officers, diplomats and officials inside made for the country.

“All along the road, I saw preparations for resistance,” continues the correspondent. “More troops were being moved into positions. Guns lumbered down the road. In some places where they were near the front the bridges were prepared for mining.

“Down the Ukraine road, I found a great number of refugees, mostly Jews, fleeing from Silesia, Katowice Cracow, Lodz and other towns which had fallen to the Germans. “Down south the Germans were not finding progress so easy owing to the difficulty of the terrain. “So far as Poland is concerned, I can say that the war really is only starting now the fronts are straightening out and getting to the line the Polish General Staff had previously laid down as the main line of resistance.”

The journalists travelled over 450 miles from Warsaw, constantly menaced by German bombers.