DISARMED POLES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20056, 30 September 1939, Page 6

DISARMED POLES

LEAVING CAPITAL ENTRY BY GERMANS SURRENDER OF MODLIN TERRIBLE WARSAW SCENE • i ' • - • * ; 1 - * • J DIPLOMAT’S DESCRIPTION (Reed. Sept. 30, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 29. A communique issued in Berlin states that the disarmed garrison begins to leave Warsaw to-night. The German troops will-enter on Monday. The German communique says that Modlin lias surrendered unconditionally. The garrison numbers SOjOOO, ot whom’ 4000 are wounded.

A message from Copenhagen quotes a statement made by the Norwegian Minister to Warsaw, M. Ditleff, iis follows: “I do not know what hell looks like, but it could not be weirfee than Warsaw when I left. There was not a single house intact. The German bombardment was unbelievable. Aeroplanes swarmed over the city in relays, dropping thousands of tons of explosives.” A Moscow wireless broadcast states that leaflets embodying the NaziSoviet agreement were scattered from the air in the Russian area of Poland stating that the agreement ends the “exploitation and oppression” of White Russians and Ukrainians by the Polish nobles and the people can lace a' future lull of happiness and justice.

BRITAIN’S FOOD SUPPLY

_YEAR’S SUGAR STOCKS DECENTRALISATION MOVE (Reed. Sept. 30, 2 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 29. Mr. W. S. Morrison, Minister of Food, in a broadcast spccoh, said that the Ministry of Food, with, the goodwill of Empire producers, had completed arrangements for the purchase of a year’s requirements of sugar, comprising over 1,000,000 tons. There is no possibility of a shortage, as the Home crop was also available. Stocks of tea were scattered in the provinces.

The Government had also moved stocks of meat and butter from London. “Butter will not be as plentiful. “We must use margarine as well,” he said. “Rationing will not involve queues and prices will not be beyond the small purse.”