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PRESIDENT CALLS SPECIAL SESSION REVISION OF NEUTRALITY LAW. REPEAL OF ARMS EMBARGO ANTICIPATED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) WASHINGTON September 13. President Roosevelt has called a special session of Congress, opening on September 21. A radio report conveys the same news and adds that the President will hold a conference with party leaders at the White House next Wednesday. It is stated that it is intended to repeal the arms embargo provision of the American neutrality law. GERMANS INDICTED MESSAGES .FROM AMERICAN AMBASSADOR. BOMBING OF OPEN CITIES & TOWNS. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 13. Mr Anthony Biddle, American Ambassador to Poland, today formally charged the German forces with bombing open cities and towns in Poland. The State Department released a cablegram from Mr Biddle dated September 8, in which the Ambassador reported that the German air forces were “taking advantage of every opportun ity, without regard to the danger to the civilian population. It is also evident that German bombers are releasing bombs even when in doubt as to the identity of their objectives.” The Ambassador cited the following instances:—“Attacks made on my villa and those of neighbours, heavy attack on modern apartment buildings in the suburbs of Warsaw, the destruction of a sanatorium involving the death of ten children, in the woods near Otwock, the bombing of a refugee train on its way from Kutno, damage done to a hospital train carrying wounded soldiers —a train plainly marked with the Red Cross on the roof and drawn up at the uncovered East Station of Warsaw, the destruction of a Girl Guide hut in which twelve girls were killed.” The Ambassador sent the State Department a second telegram today from the Polish town where the Embassy is now located. The Department refused to reveal its name. The telegram read: "This place, a defenceless, open village. has been bombed, not only on its outskirts, but along its main street 300 yards from this Embassy and within even closer proximity to other missions as well. The Foreign Office has verified that the casualties include eleven killed and forty seriously in jured. Many business properties have, been damaged. The population was terrorised by the suddenness and unexpectedness of the raid.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1939, Page 7
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375CONGRESS TO MEET Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1939, Page 7
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