CASUALTIES IN AIR COMBAT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20053, 27 September 1939, Page 6

CASUALTIES IN AIR COMBAT

Nazis Claim Capture of Warsaw Suburb STAFF OF SOVIET EMBASSY LEAVE CITY Early Visit By Ribbentrop To Moscow Expected (Elec. Tel. Copyright.—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Sept. 27, 2 p.in.) LONDON, Sept, 20. It is officially stated in Paris that the French, for the first lime, to-day made contact with the principal field pill boxes and trenches around Mornbach, where the frontier most closely approaches the Siegfried Line. Heavy artillery fire splintered portions of the Herman fortifications in the Rhineland. The civilian evacuation of the East Saarhrucken lias been speeded up and a new Nazi countor-atlack lias been repulsed. II is unofficially stated in Paris that two Herman attacks in the Wissembourg and Pirmasens sectors were burled back with the decimation of the retreating Germans. A Paris radio message announces that a large part of the Herman armies which participated in the Polish campaign lias been transferred to the Western Front, concentrating at Aachen and in the Black Forest areas. A further Paris message says that the Hermans brought down two French planes in air combats. The Herman losses are believed to have been heavier. The Basle correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says that a squadron of 20 Avar pianos, believed to be French, Hew over the Rhine, draAving fire from German anti-aircraft batteries. Safe Conduct To German Lines. An official Gorman wireless message broadcast in Berlin says that Warsaw’s southern suburb, Mokotov, has been captured. Moscoav reports that 62 Russians from the Soviet Embassy, consisting of consular and trade representatives, left Warsaw under safe conduct to the German lines outside the city in the course of a three-hour truce. Moscoav reports that the Herman Foreign Minister, TienYon Ribbentrop, is expected to arrm; there to-morroAV in order to discuss problems connected Avith the developments in Poland.

The Berlin correspondent of the British United Press states that Herr Hitler and Herr Von Ribbentrop, arrived by plane to-day and Avent to the Chancellery Avhere activity was manifest, . - i ,£;A'f iJiliilill