POLAND CONFIDENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 September 1939, Page 6

POLAND CONFIDENT

ACCEPTANCE OF GERMAN CHALLENGE DETERMINATION TO DEFEND LIBERTY. .UKRAINIANS DECLARE LOYALTY. WARSAW, September 2. The Polish Prime Minister, M Slawoj Skladowski, addressing Parliament said: “War has been imposed upon us. We accept the challenge. We have been attacked, and we are fighting. We shall win this war. because Joseph Pilsudski taught us how to win liberty and how to defend it. We shall be victorious under the supreme command of Marshal Smigly-Rydz and by the Holy Passion of our Lord. We are in the second day of war. The rush of tremendous historic events holds no terrors for us. We know the fortunes of war are changeable, but the unconquerable Polish army will defeat its historic enemy. Our country will crush Teutonic arrogance and haughtiness.” On behalf of Ukrainians, the deputy, M Celewicz, said: “We Ukrainians are already shedding our blood for Poland. Today our old political quarrels are forgotten. We light shoulder to shoulder with the Poles for the common ideal of human liberty and national independence.” CAPTURE OF AIRPORT REPORTED BY GERMANS. LOSSES AND DESTRUCTION OF AIRCRAFT. (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 3. The United Press of America Berlin correspondent says the German Army claims to have captured Radomske, the site of an important Polish airport, 60 miles south of Warsaw. The Germans have admitted the loss of 21 planes. They claim to have destroyed 120 Polish planes. RADIO WARNING , TALK OF EXPECTED RAID ON BERLIN. LONDON, September 2. The Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press of America says that a radio broadcast at 4.10 p,m. issued a warnin gthat a raid on Berlin was expected tonight. The population was asked to remain calm.