“WAR ONLY STARTING”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1939, Page 5

“WAR ONLY STARTING”

SCENES IN EVACUATION OF WARSAW VISTULA BRIDGES CROWDED. PREPARATIONS EVERYWHERE FOR RESISTANCE. (Independent Cable Service.) LONDON, September'll. The “Daily Express” correspondent on the Rumanian-Polish frontier, describing how members of the Government and of foreign embassies -and newspaper men evacuated Warsaw, says it was a long nasty trip from Warsaw across bridges crammed with small-skinny horses pulling low-wheel - ed carts piled up with bundles of bedding, clothes and furniture. Among them shiny smart limousines belonging to the Government, with staff officers, diplomats and officials inside, made for the country. “All along the road I saw preparations for resistance,” the correspondent says. “More troops were moved into positions and guns lumbered down the road. In some places, where they are near the front, the bridges were prepared for mining. Down the Uk ■ raine Road I found a great number of refugees, mostly Jews, fleeing from Silesia, Katowice, Cracow. Lodz and other towns which have fallen to the Germans. Down south the Germans are-not finding progress so easy, owing to the difficulty of the terrain. “So far as Poland is concerned, I can say the war is really only starting now. The fronts are straightening out and getting to the line which the Polish General Staff previously laid down as the main line of resistance. Journalists, who travelled more than 450 miles from Warsaw, were constantly menaced by German bombers.” A Reuters message states that heavy fighting is taking place five miles to the north-west of the Polish-Rumanian frontier, but the German advance from Cracow to the capital, Warsaw, has slowed down. The German High Command admits that German troops are being held up in the north-east and in the south-west. To the north-east, says the message it seems that the Poles have been successful in defending the line at three main points, on the Narew. Bug and Vistula Rivers. In the south the Polish army is preparing to defend a line along the Vistula. —By radio. “POLAND BETRAYED” NAZI PROPAGANDA EFFORT. (Received This Dav, 9.15 a.m.) BERLIN. Sen!ember 11. A German and Polish language broadcast slates ’that Britain doos not intend to send soldiers and so she has betrayed Poland.