Capture of Strategic Point

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20044, 16 September 1939, Page 7

Capture of Strategic Point

GUNI DOMINATING CONTACTS Reminder By Halifax Of Hitler Pledge GENEVA BAN ON USE OF POISON GAS Berlin Comment On Buffer State In Poland (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Sept. 15, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 14. A Paris radio announcement states that the French have cut off Saarbrucken by the capture of an important strategic point of Politz. The artillery is in position enabling the domination of communications between Saarbrucken and Germaiiy. It is semi-officially estimated in Paris that French naval patrdls either sunk or caused the intertment in neutral ports ot 1,105,b00 tons of German shipping. It is stressed that when the vessels were sunk the safety of the crews was assured. Speaking to-day in the House of Lords, the Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, said that Germany had notified Britain that she intended to observe throughout the war the prohibition concerning the use of poisonous gas and asphyxiating gas and bacteriological methods of warfare which formed the subject of the Geneva protocol of 1925. Germany reserved full liberty of action in the event of the provisions of the protocol being infringed by an enemy. Lord Halifax added that Herr Hitler, in reply to President Roosevelt’s appeal, said that he would refrain from bombing nonmilitary directives under all circumstances.

Reporting further from Berlin concerning the alleged German and Russian plan, the representative of the United Press of Great Britain says it is stated reliably that the two Governments agreed to leave a buffer Polish State between C the two nations, instead of establishing a common frontier ' when Germany crushed the Polish resistance. There is much gossip, but nothing definite, however, to indicate what frontier { Germany will demand.