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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 238, 25 September 1939, Page 3

SHARE POLAND

GERMAN-SOVIET PLAN NAZIS TO HA VIE WARSAW CAPITAL STILL HOLDING OUT LONDON, Sept. 22. The Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press srtys it is assorted by the Germans that tlie real battle for Warsaw has not yet started. The Polish »dlefenders' are still counterattacking and vainly attempting to break, through the German lines investing the suburb of Pragn. The Poles are holding out in the Gclynrtt area and also between the Vistula and the ling Rivers. 'The Berlin correspondent , of the Associated Press says that the German command permitted 10(0 foreign consuls, attaches and business-men to leave Warsaw overnight by specified roads. A Budapest message says that the German troops have reached the Pol-ish-Hungarian frontier near Lawcczne. A communique issued in Moscow claims that the occupation of Pinsk as part of the.'■final mopping-up operations in the occupied areas of Poland. The Soviet press ler the first time announces that a Dneiper River war patrol entered Polish waters on Monday evening without- resistance. .It is officially announced in Berlin that the Russian and German Govern-, ments have agreed to a demarkation of a line hetweew the Russian and German armies in Poland, namely along the rivers Pissa, Narew, \ istula and San. Germany is to take Warsaw. The Berlin representative of the British United Press says that under the agreement the San Domierni triangle in which Poland built up her armament industry, becomes German. It is stated that- the Russian line includes Lublin, Luck, I.wow, Brest-Litovsk, Bialy Stole and Vilna. Nazi sources in Berlin state that tlie preliminary details of, carving up Poland were worked out during the the recent visit to .Moscow by, a German military mission. ’1 liis mission has departed. It is expected that diplomatic negotiatiins will require a week. - •• The Copenhagen correspondent of the New.s Chronicle says it is reported from Berlin that the Soviet War Minister, Marshall Voroshilov is going to Berlin in Octiber 1 or 2 ti> meet Field-' Marshal Goering and General Ycm Brauchi tsch. C ommander-in-Chief of the German army. Tl, e French Ministry of Information states that in the three weeks of warfare in Poland the German casualties were lot,•.()()() dead and wounded. Germany also lest SIX) aeroplanes and OOt; pilots. PRISONERS ARRIVE IN ENGLAND ART ILL FRY- DUEL CONTI N FES J.ON DUN . Sept. 22. German prisoners taken cm the Western front have begun ter arrive in England. A Communique issued by the .Ministry of Information announces that a number of German officers arrived in a- prison camp in England to-day. Other German prisoners were taken to a second camp. Few people saw the arrival of the prisoners and there were no demonstrations. The prisoners laughed when a woman in a small group of spectators at ; t station shouted: “Hard luck mate, to which the prisoner replied: “Not- so hard.’’ The Ministry of Information states that during the course of air opeiations on Wednesday one German tighter aircraft was shot down by British aircraft in France. A Paris communique states: “'I here was activity with our contact .-elements in the regions south cl Saarbrucken ami east- of the River Blies and also artillery action cm both sides of the front.’’ LUCKY ACCIDENT SUBMARINE SUNK RAMMED BY TRAWLER U-BOAT TOLL ANALYSED LONDON. Sept. 22. Captain Arthur Danvood, the skipper of a- trawler, related how he believed ' that his ship had accidentally rammed and stink a German submarine. The trawler sighted two British warships, and a British aeroplane circling

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