MURDER BOMBING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1939, Page 5

MURDER BOMBING

DENOUNCED BV M. MOSCICKI MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. THOUSANDS OF CIVILIANS KILLED & WOUNDED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 9 a.m.) BUCHAREST, September 17. The President of Poland, M. Moscicki, has sent a message to President Roosevelt stating that German aeroplanes have bombarded methodically and with premeditation open Polish towns and villages. Thousands of civilians in towns without military objectives have been killed and wounded. FLIGHT REPORTED POLISH GOVERNMENT IN RUMANIA. (Received This Day. 9 a.m.) CERAUTI (Rumania), Sept. 17. The Polish Government fled into Rumania today. Seventy-five Polish warplanes landed here today and their crews were taken into custody. RUSSIANS OPPOSED POLISH EMBASSY REPORT. (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, September 17. The Polish Embassy in London has advised that Polish forces are strenuously resisting Soviet troops along the frontier. / SOVIET DRIVES A REPORTED REPULSE. . (Received This Dav. 9 a.m.) BERNE, September 17. The Polish Legation announced that a Soviet attack on Molodexzno, 20 miles from the border, had been repulsed and added that the Russians, apparently following the main east to west railway lines, had aimed three separate drives against Wilno and two others against Pinsk. MOMENTOUS CRISIS BRITAIN AWAITING CONFIRMATION. LONDON, September 17. The Ministry of Information announced that the Government had not received confirmation of the fighting between the Poles and Russians, but it was endeavouring to ascertain the facts, realising the anxiety created in view of “the momentous decision with which the British may be faced.” FURTHER DENIAL POLISH EMBASSY IN PARIS. (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, September 17. The Polish Embassy in Paris denies the Russian allegation that the Polish Government is no longer in Poland. An announcer broadcasting this added that the Russian move had caused a sensation in Lithuania, where Government leaders had immediately conferred. ACT OF AGGRESSION ', DECLARATION BY LONDON EMBASSY. (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, September 17. The Polish Embassy today declared that the Russian invasion of Poland was an act of aggression and a representative hurried to the British Foreign Office, to discuss the new turn of events. Official quarters said they could not speculate on the implications of the Anglo-Polish non-aggression pact until the precise facts had been determined. It was asserted, however, that the possibility of such action as Russia had taken had been taken into account by Britain and France from the moment the German-Russian non-aggres-sion pact was signed. GERMAN CLAIMS CAPTURE OF BREST LITOVSK. TWELVE THOUSAND PRISONERS TAKEN. *• (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, September 17. A German broadcast claims the capture of the citadel of Brest Litovsk and adds that an attempt by scattered Polish troops to escape via Sicdlce towards the south-east ended with the Germans taking 12,000 prisoners. WARSAW ULTIMATUM REPORTED POLISH REPLY. (Received This Day. 9 a.m.) BERLIN; September 17. According to radio and the official news agency, the Warsaw commander asked the commander of the besieging army to receive a Polish emissary to discuss the ultimatum for the surrender of the city. The Germans agreed. It was later stated that the German High Command had broadcast direct to Warsaw directions for representatives of the civil population to negotiate under white flags for withdrawal from the city. A Warsaw radio message tonight began broadcasting pro-Greman addresses and attacks on Britain, indicating the probable occupation of the capital by German troops. JAPANESE VIEWPOINT (Received This Day. 9 a.m.) TOKIO. September 17. Official circles state that the Russian military action is “a natural result of the Russian-Japanese armistice, which has relieved the Soviet of immediate pressure in the Far East.”