BATTLES IN EUROPE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20040, 12 September 1939, Page 6

BATTLES IN EUROPE

Ordeal for People of Poland WARSAW AND LWOW SHELLED German Claims To Further Captures NEW ZONE OF ATTACK ON WEST FRONT French Planes Bombing Concentrated Points (IB lee. Tel. Copyright.-—■ United Press Assn.) (Reed. Sept. 12, 1.50 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 11. A communique issued from Lwow by the Polish general headquarters announces that lighting has occurred north of the Dug River in the Ostrowi-'Mazowiecki district. The, enemy 10-day extended Ills action wit 1 i armoured Units to the hanks of the Vistula. Lwow sustained six successive bombardments of great intensity yesterday. A number of projectiles fell in working-class suburbs, causing casualties. Passengers on an evacuation train from Warsaw to Lwow say that they were obliged to leave the train 72 times owing to bombing from planes. A Budapest message quotes a Polish communique stating 1 hat Berman pianos are continuing the relentless bombing of Warsaw and also the defence lines on the Dug River. Severe lighting took place along the San River near Sauok, where Die Bermans a re'attempting to smash towards Lwow in order lo cut off the Ukraine-Russian-Polish rail communications. The Bermans claim the capture of Loiiiza. The German High Command, in a communique issued at Merlin, says that Die great: battle in Poland is nearing conclusion. The were to-day driven across the San liivcr which. German troops crossed. The Germans also succeeded in establishing bridgeheads on the south bank of the Narew River, near Novgorod and W'izna. Polish artillery in the eastern part of Warsaw is directing a heavy fire on the German troops ensconced in the western parts of the capital. German planes bombed railroads east of Warsaw, Lemberg, Lublin and Chcim. The Germans claim that: the investment of Gdynia eonlilines and Ncustadl and Putzig are now in German hands. The German naval forces assisted the army Jry bombarding Gdynia. Paris reports state that the action on the Western Front is gaining in intensity. A new zone of attack is from the eastern edge of a line from) the Putsch Plateau to the German Palatinate between the Little Saar River and the Vosges Mountains. The German counter-attacks are directed at the western end of hire line from the Saar Basin. It is officially stated in Paris that French planes heavily bombed German concentration points in the Saar Valley behind the Siegfried Line. A. German wireless report claims that three French planes were brought down. The Germans say that French artillery fired on an evacuated aerodrome in Saarbrucken.