WARSAW BRAVERY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20056, 30 September 1939, Page 5

WARSAW BRAVERY

BRITISH TRIBUTES

HEROISM NOT FORGOTTEN

WRONGS WILL BE RIGHTED

ALLIES’ DETERMINATION

INVADERS’ EMPTY GLORY

(British Official Wireless.)

Reed. 11 a.m. RUGBY, Sept. 29. The anouncement that on the surrender of Warsaw the German army to-day will enter the city and, as The Times remarks, “earn such measure of glory as may be thought to be the due of those who exploited with most ruthless efficiency, immense superiority of numbers, and still more overwhelming superiority of armament” is made occasion for tributes in the press to the courage of the defenders and reaffirmations of the determination to right Poland’s wrongs.

The Times says: “England and France are determined to devote the utmost of their strength to her restoration. Warsaw has been offered up by hor citizens to the destroyer, a sacrifice for the liberties not only of Poland but of the world.”

The Daily Herald says: “Civilised men will not forget Warsaw any more than they forgot Belgium in 1914. The real victors of Warsaw, as of Madrid before it, are the men, women and children who showed themselves ready to face death rather than submit. Their heroism will b? remembered and their sacrifice repaid.”

GUATEMALAN PROTEST

GERMAN MIS-STATEMENT

BROADCAST PROPAGANDA

(British Official Wireless.)

Reed. 11 a.m. RUGBY. Sept. 29. The Guatemala ! Foreign Minister Senor Carlos Salazar, has given an emphatic denial of a Berlin broadcast announcement on September 26, that he had declared to the consultative conference of Foreign Ministers in Panama, that Britain was not fulfilling her obligations, as was shown bv the fact that the Belize- ■ British Honduras matter was still unsettled.

In a communication to the German Minister at Panama, Senor Salazar says it is absolutely untrue that he made any such declaration, and he asked the German Minister to take the necessary steps to ensure that Germany should transmit only statements which reflect the truth of incidents which actually take place.

attacks cannot be expected at present, but officials feel that arrangements should he made for meeting a possible contingency. Another factor is the desire to ensure that coastwise neutral shipping will not be attacked by belligerent sea raiders. Excluding gunboats, the South Americas have 70 war craft available, patrolling 8500 miles of the Atlantic and 5300 miles of the Pacific sea coast. It is likely that the United States eventually will be required to supply aircraft and other aid for the neutrality -patrol.