Poles Annihilate Regiment

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20044, 16 September 1939, Page 5

Poles Annihilate Regiment

BITTER FIGHTING SUSTAINED Civilian Victims Of Nazi Bombers FURTHER GAINS CLAIMED BY GERMANS Advance Now Found Not To Be A Walk-over (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Sept. 16, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 15. A Warsaw message quotes a Polish Army night communique which admits that the German forces, after crossing the Navew River, reached the outskirts of Bialystok, where severe fighting is going on. Heavy lighting is also progressing to the south-east of Warsaw, where the Poles . claim to have annihilated a whole German infantry regiment. They also claim to be successfully resisting heavy German attacks on Lwow (Lemberg), capturing 10 tanks and one armoured car and downing several German bombing planes. The correspondent of the United Press of America at Zaleszckyki says that the Polish troops, reinforced by heavy, artillery, arc lighting bitterly in the defence of Lwow. ; compelling motorised columns which 'reached the outskirts to fall back. Warsaw states German planes are still sweeping the main roads in eastern Poland, machine-gunning, refugees who are struggling westward in the wake of the retreating Polish Army before the oncoming invaders. The Polish Government moved from Krzemienecz to Zalezezvki because of air attacks. . Polish sources in Paris state that 20.000 civilians were killed in the German air raids on Lwow. A Vilna' message quotes a radio broadcast stating that 60 patients were killed when German planes bombed a children’s sanitoriiim near Warsaw. • * A German wireless commentator to-day stated: :• “It * would be a mistake to think that the German Army has an easy task in Poland. The Avar is not a walk-over. The Gormans are fighting a brave and resolute ( enemy.. The German victories are the result of leadership, Strategy and • the forces employed by the German Army.” An Independent Cable Service message from Berlin states that authoritative military headquarters declare that the German troops, advancing beyond the Lublin-LwDAv road, captured Jablorma, nprtlvwest of Warsaw, and approached Praga, an eastern suburb of Warsaw., It is claimed that they penetrated Brest-Litovsk from Uie north north-east. A later Berlin communique confirms the crossing of the LublinLwoav road.