DEFIANCE HURLED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1939, Page 8

DEFIANCE HURLED

UNDAUNTED DEFENDERS OF WARSAW UNDER RAIN OF SHELLS. PUBLIC PARKS CONVERTED INTO BURIAL GROUNDS. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) WARSAW, September 2 0. The radio continues to hurl defiance at the encircling Nazis. Weary-voiced announcers, working in relays, describe each new horror, admitting that the Russian advance is reducing Warsaw to “a tiny island in a sea of enemy occupied areas.” An announcer declared that shells were raining on the city as he spoke and that Warsaw’s public parks had been converted into burial grounds because the cemeteries were full. A Berlin radio message announced that Warsaw’s commander, General Czuma, has been wounded. “OPERATIONS CLOSED” GERMAN OFFICIAL VIEW. (Received This Day, 1.25 p.m.) BERLIN, September 20. In an official statement it is announced that with the defeat of the Poles on the Vistula front, military operations in Poland are closed. “POLAND WIPED OUT” ITALIAN PRESS VIEWS. IDEA OF RESTORATION “IDIOTIC.” (Received This Day, 1.25 p.m.) LONDON, September 20. The Rome correspondent of “The Times” states that Italian officials are strictly reserved regarding Herr Hitler’s speech, but the Press unanimously emphasises that now that Poland is virtually wiped out, the reasons for the Western Powers’ intervention no longer exist. The Press maintains that the idea of a complete restoration of Poland is “an idiocy even beyond the capacity of the democracies.” The war, therefore, will be a vendetta against regimes and and is doomed to failure.