OCCUPATION OF DANZIG

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 229, 4 September 1939, Page 3

OCCUPATION OF DANZIG

BOMBING RAIDS ON POLAND pbupdk; hush fob shelteb EXPLOSIONS HKAKI) IN CITY LONDON, Sept. 1. 'l’he Official Ne-ws Agency in Paris says that lighting is general alftiost the whole lei igth of the Polish Corridor. The British United - Press correspondent says that the Germans occupied Danzig after ' the Nazi leade r. Herr Foerster, had invited Herr Hitler to send an army. Bond's arced al- Gdynia fell into the sea. Hai ls were; made on Biala, Podskala, and Cracow. While the Polish Ambassador in Paris was telephoning to Warsaw, bombs were falling almost at the same time as he Jieard Herr Hitler broadcasting that lie tvoifld respect women and children.

'The Berlin-wireless station announces that the first successful air raid by a German bombing squadron was car tied out on Warsaw’s military aerodrome.

'The Warsaw correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says that German war planes raided tin: centre of the city at 4.30 p.in., dropping bombs. . Pour previous attempts had failed. The raiders apparently were trying to smash the Vistula bridges. Some German raiders apparently had fallen into the river. Bombs were dropped two blocks from the American Embassy. The Warsaw correspondent of the British United Press reports that tile fourth air raid warning was given in the cap* ifnl. at 12.40 p.m. The citizens calmly and speedily sought the shelters. 'Ten minutes later the heavy tlmd <>l the anti-aircraft guns were heard to the west. Apparently the air defences are sufficient, because the raider or raiders were driven off before the citizens heard the engines. On this occasion the “all clear” signal sounded at L 2.-37 p.m.

It is officially stated in Warsaw that thoair attacks are continuing on cities i'll Silesia. 'The* defences of tin* Polish •Con idoi* are now stated to have suffered no damage and there were no casualties. Although the sirens were sounded twice, explosions heard in the capital appeared to be eight to 10 miles to the west. The raiders apparently were attempting to blast the railways, it was stated that there were heavy troop movements from East Prussia towards the frontier.

GERMANYS PROSPECTS UNFITTED FDR LONG WAP, LONDON, Sept. 1. 'The Daily 'Telegraph, in a leading article discussing Germany’s -prospects in a fightdu two fronts says: “Jn a military sense, Poland is no despicable opponent, even against the cun battled might of Germany, and Germany’s belief that Tier lyestdrfi defences are impregnable would probably not survive the test of such "an assault as that which would be launched against them. From the moment war is actually declared, German commerce would be felt more speedily than in the last war in a country far less fitted in agricultural and financial resources lei* a long struggle. “'flic people of Germany can be no longer deluded into believing that they would liavci to deal in a war provoked by their rulers with an opponent who was weak and without friends.”