OFFENSIVE CHECKED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1939, Page 7

OFFENSIVE CHECKED

FRENCH MILITARY EXPERTS IMPRESSED LIMITATIONS OF ARMOURED , DIVISIONS. POLISH STAND ON REDUCED FRONT. LONDON, September 12. Thb check on the German advance on Warsaw impresses the French military experts, states a message from Paris. Colonel Fabry, writing in “Le Matin,” states that it proves that, as in Madrid, armoured divisions are efficacious in the countryside, but useless in suburbs and large towns. The German radio continues to broadcast incessant warnings to the Polish civilians not to resist under pain of death the German advance. A Russian broadcast states that the German offensive has been broken at the River Bug. The Belgian balloonist, M Demuyter, who has just returned from Lwow, states the opinion that'if Poland receives effective tangible help in the course of the coming weeks she will be able to resist the aggressors for a long time on the reduced front. The Polish troops and civil population have shown wonderful courage and energy, he states.

states the opinion that'if Poland receives effective tangible help in the course of the coming weeks she will be able to resist the aggressors for a long time on the reduced front. The Polish troops and civil population have shown wonderful courage and energy, he states. The Warsaw radio today announced that Poland has decided to lodge a protest to the Governments of all civilised nations against “the German practice of indiscriminate bombing of open towns and civilians.” Rain is reported in Poland. NAZI CLAIMS MANY POLISH DIVISIONS TRAPPED. (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) BERLIN, September 12. The Nazis estimate that about 22 of the 50 Polish divisions have been “trapped or wiped out.” They claim that 18 divisions have been caught west of the Vistula during the last three days and will be unable to cross , the river. The German High’ Command states that all territory in Poland belonging to Germany before the Great War is now in German hands. The battle west of the Vistula is drawing to a close. German troops are approaching Fort Nodlin. Others have crossed the Warsaw-Bialystok Railway. CHOPIN MUSIC TELLS EUROPE THAT WARSAW IS HOLDING OUT. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) BUDAPEST, September 12. The opening notes of “Polonaise,” by Chopin, whose' heart is buried in a Warsaw Church, told Europe today that Warsaw is still holding out. After the radio has ended its night broadcast, the opening bars are sounded every 30 seconds on a xylophone. HELD AGAINST ATTACK T" LINES ON NAREW AND BUG. ENGLISHWOMAN KILLED IN WARSAW. (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, September 12. The Polish Telegraph Agency states that the Germans failed to penetrate the Polish positions on the Narew and Bug rivers. There were seventeen air raids on Warsaw yesterday. A communique states that Mrs Shelley, wife of the passport control officer at the British Embassy in Warsaw, was killed in an air raid last week. The remaining Embassy officials are unharmed.