TALES OF TRAGEDY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1939, Page 8

TALES OF TRAGEDY

MORE ABOUT MURDER BOMBING SHIPMENT OF PLANES FROM BRITAIN. HELD UP OVER FREIGHT DISPUTE. (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, September 20. “The Times” Bucharest correspondent says a procession of refugees twenty miles long is pouring through Cernauti. Polish soldiers have piled up every form of war material likely to be useful to the Germans. Refugees tell appalling tales of the bombing of open towns. Eyewitnesses of the Krzemieniec bombing state that the market place was clearly distinguishable, thronged with peasants and villagers who waved to planes bearing Polish markings, only to find that they were really .German machines, whose pilots machinegunned them mercilessly. The Poles believe that England and France have abandoned them. When the truth is told, they ask despairingly: ’’Then why was Germany not bombed?”

The saddest complaint is that a shipment of a hundred of the most modern fighters and a large quantity of bombs, was due to be despatched from London by a steamer arriving at Gdynia on August 25, when someone discovered that the shipment would be £4OOO 'cheaper if sent by another route. Argument and haggling followed and as a result the shipment never left London, and the Poles were without fighters to combat the German bombers. This largely contributed to the Polish debacle. LEMBERG RESISTING (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) WARSAW, September 20. M Lipinski, the Polish military commentator, broadcasting, announced that German attacks are continuing on Lemberg, which, like Warsaw, is still resisting. REPORTED RUSSIAN ENTRY SUICIDE OF GOVERNOR. (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) MOSCOW, September 20. The Russians have entered Lemberg, whose Governor committed suicide last night.