MONSTER TANKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1939, Page 6

MONSTER TANKS

SPEARHEAD OF INVADING TROOPS FLIGHT OF POLISH REFUGEES. COMBATANTS INTERNED IN RUMANIA. (Received This Day, 12.0 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 17. The United Press Cernauti correspondent states that infantry, with monster tanks which formed the spearhead, advanced in Southern Poland without resistance and penetrated thirty-seven miles at some points. By noon they had reached Kileinea. The Polish troops behind Zaleszcyki were virtually without officers. Many of the officers did not wait to change into mufti before crossing into Rumania, where they were interned. Some swam the Dneister River. Among a mass of vehicles pouring in were two fire-engines and a hook • and ladder truck from Cracow loaded with refugees. Refugees from Warsaw said the bombardment played havoc, particularly with the Jewish quarter. A large bomb and subsequent fire killed a hundred persons sheltering in one house. FIFTY MILES IN FORMER RUSSIAN CITIES VERY WEAK RESISTANCE. (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) MOSCOW, September 17. The High Command headquarters on Polish soil radios that the Soviet forces, advancing against very weak resistance, have penetrated places fifty miles and occupied . several former Russian cities in the north, including Glubokoe, Volozhin and Molodeczno. The centres occupied include Baranowicze in the south and also Stavropol, Rovnq and Dubno. RUMANIAN INTEGRITY ! SOVIET ASSURANCE NOT CONFIRMED. (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) BUCHAREST, September 17. It is reported without confirmation that. Russia has given an assurance to respect Rumania’s neutrality and territory. BRITISH MINISTERS CONFERENCE THROUGHOUT DAY. (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 17. Mr Chamberlain and Lord Halifax conferred throughout the day. It is authoritatively stated that the Government is waiting for fuller information from its Ambassador. According to an Association Press of America message, the British diplomatic view is that the attitude of the Polish Government is not clear, and that if the Government flees into Rumania, it cannot operate.