NEWS BY RADIO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1939, Page 6

NEWS BY RADIO

OPERATIONS ON THE POLISH FRONT LEMBERG BOMBED HEAVILY. GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT MINED. The following reports, issued from the short wave station at Daventry (England) have been rebroadcast by the New Zealand national stations: — The mail body of the Polish army had been withdrawn intact and. is consolidating its position. Lemberg has been bombed by German planes. The civilian population has suffered, heavy casualties. Polish troops are still holding out at Gdynia, but German forces are reported to have surrounded the city. Reports from German sources stated that a major battle for Warsaw would probably be decided that night. General Smuts said South Africa would take every step for the defence of the Union but would not be sending troops overseas. In Canada it is proposed to provide 100,000,000 dollars for war purposes up to March 31, 1940. A German torpedo-boat is reported to have been blown up by a mine. Several of the crew were drowned. Early this morning the Warsaw radio station was still broadcasting in Polish. The commander of Warsaw’s defence forces states that the German attack on Warsaw is abating. There is little fighting in the city. Three out of four German tanks reconnoitring on the outskirts of the city have been captured by Polish forces. A German attack in the suburbs was repulsed and a tank captured. The value of the of the tank, it is declared, amounts to nothing in street fighting. Tanks cannot be driven through the narrow streets nor withstand fire from the houses above. Warsaw is now famous throughout the world for its gallant defence.

An unconfirmed report states that Rumanian troops are being brought up to the Russian frontier and are digging trenches, in view of Soviet activity.