German-Soviet Advance

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20052, 26 September 1939, Page 5

German-Soviet Advance

NAZI CLAIM TO PERFECT UNITY Russians Capture Many Prisoners AMERICAN STORY OF BOMBING TERROR Up To Five Thousand Planes Employed (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Sept. 26, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 25. The Rotterdam correspondent o£ The Times states that a communique issued by the German High Command announced that the Germans in Poland had crossed the v istula Rivet between Modlin and Warsaw, cutting off Modlin irom the capital. General Bortnowski, commander of the Polish Corridor Army, surrendered with his stall in the woods on the East Prussian border. A communique issued in Berlin by the German High Command says that the movement of German troops toward the demarcation line in Poland continues without .friction and perfect unison with the Russian units. Diving bombers repeatedly attacked military objectives. The Germans claim that Warsaw has been isolated. The Berlin paper Volkischer Beobachtcr says that Russia and Germany will never slaughter each other for the sake of Britain. The present agreement settles Russian and German relations for all time. General; Advance of Soviet Troops. A communique issued at Moscow records a general advance of the Soviet troops. The capture of 11,000 prisoners and several towns brings the Soviet troops within 40 miles of the demarcation line. Moscow states .that the Red Army is now in the heart of the Polish oilfields. The communique adds 1 hat in the course of the advance to the demarcation line the liquidation of the Polish armies was accomplished. Ten thousand men were taken prisoner south of Brcst-Litovsk. ■The Paris correspondent of The Times says that'Mr. A. J. Drexell Biddle, the American Ambassador to Poland, has arrived in Paris. He declared that in the latter stages of the struggle, the whole action of the German aircraft, of which he estimated 5000 were employed, was designed to terrorise the civilian population. At first, the German planes concentrated on bombing aerodromes, aircraft factories and military camps. Afterwards they swept over the whole country, working in two shifts.

“It seemed impossible to get away from them,” he said. “My own ear was bombed 15 times and machine-gunned four times en route to the Rumanian frontier, despite the prominently-painted letters' U.S.A. on the roof. I was forced to take refuge in a roadside ditch.”