POLES TRAPPED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1939, Page 6

POLES TRAPPED

ACCORDING TO GERMAN i HIGH COMMAND FOUR ARMIES DRAWING HUGE LOOP. ALLEGED ABANDONMENT OF WARSAW. ' (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, September 10. A German High Command communique dealing with Southern Poland announces the capture of Lodz. A German Government spokesman explained that motorised troops reached the centre of Warsaw on September, but encountering snipers, withdrew to the outskirts in ordei - to await the arrival of the main army. The German pursuit of the Poles continues between the Carpathians and the Southern -Vistula. Mechanised armoured units have broken through to the river between Sandomierz, on the Vistula, and Kutno, 60 miles west of Warsaw. German aircraft are bombing the Polish lines of communication and towns ahead of the German advance, including Lemberg and Brest Litovsk. The German forces in the north have reached an area west of Wolclawek, on the Vistula north of Plock. Their spearhead is advancing from Lipno, 80 miles north-west of Warsaw, northeast of which the Germans gained a foothold on the River Bug. Fighting is in progress round Lomza, on the River Narew. The German High Command claims that Warsaw is burning because Polish artillery is heavily bombarding the “abandoned city,” also that the bulk of the Polish Army is being squeezed into a huge trap, with four armies drawing a loop, not only around Warsaw, but on a 175-mile salient west of Warsaw to Posen. ANOTHER STORY FORCES CONSOLIDATED. POLES MAKING STAND ON RIVER LINES. (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) BUCHAREST, September 10. Reports from the front indicate that the Polish forces have been consolidated on a pre-arranged front along the Narew, Bug ana Vistula rivers and are organising long-range resistance in North-East Poland.