HOLDING OUT

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 233, 13 September 1939, Page 3

HOLDING OUT

BESIEGED WARSAW INVADERS FORCED TO RETIRE BATTLE FACING DECISIVE POINT LONDON, Sept. 11. 'file British High Command -to-day for the first time ackowledged that a major battle was in progress in Poland. The announcement stated that the light for the „ possession of V ars/iw seemed only to have begun. 'l O-day’s message states that Warsaw still holds out* A onminuiiif|iic issued by the Polish Supreme Command declared that the German forces penetrating close to the city were compelled to retire. In a broadcast from Lwow, tlie Polish High Command declares that the Germans have withdrawn from the immediate neighbourhood el Warsaw and are consolidating their lines further hack. 'The Budapest correspondent of the American Associated Press says that the Lwow radio to-day announced that the Poles had forced the Germans to retreat from some of the Warsaw suburbs.

A communique issued from Lwow by the Polish general headquarters announces that fighting has occurred north of the Bug River in the OstrowMazowiecki district. The. enemy today extended his action with armoured units to the banks o<l the \ istula. Lwow sustained six successive bombardments of great intensity yesterday. A n uni her of projectiles fell in working class suburbs. causing casualties. Passengers on an evaluation train from Warsaw to Lwow say that they wi re obliged to leave the train <2 times owing to bombing from planes. A Budapest message quotes a Polish c-ouuminiqiie stating that Clerman planes are continuing the relentless bombing of Warsaw andi also the defence lines on the Bug River. Severe lighting took place along the Sail River near San ok, where the Germans are attempting to smash towards Lwow in order to cut off the Ukraino-Russian-Polish rail communications.