HAIL OF BOMBS
TREMENDOUS AIR ATTACKS ON LWOW MANY CIVILIANS KILLED. EPIDEMICS DECLARED TO BE IMMINENT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK, September 14. The correspondent of the Associated Press of America at Lwow says:— “The table on which I am writing quivers and collapses and the earth trembles as bombs explode, the noise mingling with the din of sirens and anti-aircraft guns. I am told that the Germans are dropping both shrapnel and concussion bombs, which kill civilians some distance from the point of impact. Twelve persons on an average die daily as the result of incessant raiding. “I came from Hungary in a train which was halted 20 miles from the city. The conductor pointed to flames in the sky leaping from the burning railway station. I walked five miles and boarded an unlighted tram. “I found the city of half a million people drawing water from hand pumps. The aqueduct has been destroyed and the sewerage system damaged. Disease and epidemics are imminent and fires are everywhere. “The roads are clogged with refugees. The city's 100,000 Jews are pan-j
icky with the approach of the invader. “I learned that the British and French military missions are constantly moving, since the enemy intelligence keeps the airmen informed of the location of tt)eir headquarters.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1939, Page 5
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