TO ALL CIVILISED STATES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1939, Page 8

TO ALL CIVILISED STATES

Against German Violations of Laws of War DELIBERATE BOMBING OF OPEN TOWNS SPIES IN POLISH UNIFORMS DROPPED FROM PARACHUTES (By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) WARSAW, September 10. The Polish Government has drawn the attention of the all civilised States to the boipbing of open towns in Poland, stating that it is, carried out systematically cn places possessing no military importance whatever. Poland also states that Germans dressed in Polish uniforms are landing by means of parachutes behind the lines, acting as a “fifth column.’’

RAIN IN NORTH NONE FALLING IN SOUTHERN POLAND (Received This Day 1155 a.m.) BUCHAREST, September 13. The Rumanian Weather Bureau states that heavy rain is falling in Northern Poland. There is no rain, however, in the south RUTHLESS RAIDING TOWNS HEAVILY BOMBED REFUGEE TRAIN PURSUED (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) LWOW, September 13. The Germans continue the bombing of civilians Lwow yesterday was raided twelve times. .Alarms were sounded uninterruptedly for eight hours. Luck and Lublin were also raided . Lublin'was greatly damaged. An evacuation train going to Lwow from Warsaw stopped seventy-two times to permit passengers to disembark to avoid bombing. DIPLOMATS IN DUGOUT BOMBING OF TEMPORARY HEADQUARTERS. (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) PARIS, September 13. The newspaper “L’lnformation” reports the bombing of Krzemieniec, where members of the Diplomatic Corps accredited to Poland are stationed temporarily. It is said that the corps, led by Monsignor Cortesi, Papal Nuncio, took refuge in a dugout. It is learned that each Government separately will protest against the bombing of an open town. NAZI REPORT POLISH DEFENCE LINES BROKEN. EARLY END TO CONFLICT EXPECTED. (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) BERLIN, September 13. Nazi military despatches reported that the Polish defence lines had been broken by three German army thrusts —from East Prussia, from the south and by mechanised troops in the northcast —which would quickly end the war in Eastern Europe as “a serious military conflict.”