GERMAN PROGRESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1939, Page 7

GERMAN PROGRESS

ADVANCES IN VARIOUS AREAS WARSAW SURROUNDED. EFFORT BY POLISH DIVISIONS TO BREAK THROUGH. NEW” YORK, September 11. The Berlin correspondent of the “New York Times” outlines the principal German advances on the Polish front today as follows: — There was an advance north and west of Warsaw, where it is reported that between eight and 12 Polish divisions are fighting desperately to break through. In the Kutno and Radom sectors the biggest battle of the war is being fought. The Polish fortress at Modling, on the banks of the Vistula north of Warsaw, is holding out against a German push directed south from Ciechanowy. The most important German drives are coming from the Narew and Bug Rivers sector, north-east of Warsaw, I and the Lodz and Radom sectors southwest of Warsaw. Thus from the north and south two German armies are driving toward each other. When they meet the bottleneck will be tightly closed. Warsaw is surrounded by the Germans, who are now firmly established on the southern bank of the Bug. MINES IN SILESIA AMERICAN PROPERTY. TAKEN OVER BY GERMANY. LONDON, September 12. It is revealed that Germany has taken over the Polish Silesian properties of the Silesian American Corporation’s subsidiary, the Giesche Spolka Akcyjna. Most of the properties are mines, the recent yearly production of which has been as follows: Zinc, 47,000 tons; lead, 11,000 tons; coal, 2,000,000 tons; sulphuricated acid, 50,000 tons; superphosphates, 2000 tons. ’ The American subsidiary owns large concentrating, smelting and refining plants.