DEFENCE OF WARSAW

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 232, 11 September 1939, Page 3

DEFENCE OF WARSAW

TROOPS DIGGING IN RESISTANCE TO GEH A lAN PISH BLANK ATTACKS BY CAVALRY LONDON, Sept. 8. 'J he Polish Embassy in London declared that tlie report that Germany lias taken Warsaw is false, it made contact with Warsaw at 8.35 p.m., when the Germans were carrying out an air raid. Radio reports from Warsaw state that conditions were normal after two air raids. Trenches were being dug. Street cars and furniture were being used to bin 111 barricades. Alims and traps were being prepared. It is reported that the preliminary stages of the battle for Warsaw began with the consolidation of the German « yi» position's and the preparations for c'osing the loop around Poznan. The space between the Gorman troops advancing Item the north and south lias narrowed to 50 miles of which Warsaw is the centre. The Poles are being pressed hack, to stronger defensive positions, though much of the territory between the .spearheads oi the three separate German advances is still in Bolisli possession. The Polish resistance is indicated by dashing attacks upon the German Hanks by cavalry and motorised inlantry from the Poznan salient and also constant aerial attacks. Al'iiti sources in Berlin acknowledge the gallantry of these efforts and admit the heroism of the Polish cavalry charges into the cenicentrated tire from German air raids. The Polish Army sti'i exists as an, effective entity. The.*Germans in the Corridor are mopping up tlic area, occupying town after town, while m the central and north areas, detachments which crossid' the Nareu River'at Hoznan and Lomza. In the southern area the invaders are advancing from Galicia. They were fiercely, but apparently briefly oppesed\ on a trout oi which the main points were \\ isliea a few ihiles west of Koiczyn on the Vistifhi-. uikJ/ 40 miles ; east-north-east ef C’a^tmvV and aI«Q at 'J arnow. They iunv ijare reacjheii RaK'a on the I’nwka river,V south-tvest of /'\\ arsaw. ' official Berlin “message sta temen t announces that the city ol Sanilumii r--55 miles south-west of the 'tempo:ary Polish capital of < Lublin, has been captured by the German troops. A Haris communique states that continued progress is made on the AVestorn Front, despite retiring ci.jemy destroying bridges, railroads anil tunnels. The French are sending pats robs across the minefields. The air and sea activity, was in co-operation the British Air Force and Navy. 'The Paris Correspondent of the Associated Press of America says that the northern flank of the French Army is reported to have driven seven or eight miles into German territory. Extremely heavy French attacks are developing on the northern tip of the front towards tho German city of Trier.