WARSAW STILL WITHSTANDING ATTACK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1939, Page 5

WARSAW STILL WITHSTANDING ATTACK

/ Defence Army Retakes Suburbs RUSSIANS REPORT TAKING LEMBERG AND GRODNO HEAVY CAPTURES OF MEN AND MATERIAL CLAIMED (By Telegraph.—Press Association.— Copyright.) LONDON, September 21. Fighting still continues in Poland, and Warsaw is hiding out, though it is officially announced in Berlin that with the defeat of the Poles on the Vistula front, military operations aie The Nazis estimate that mopping-up operations will take a week. The armv is reluctant to shell Warsaw heavily, hoping that surrender ‘will 'save further destruction of: valuable Pr °CiViiians as well as soldiers have been thrown into the prison camps established in Poland. A Russian General Staff communique announces t he captuie of Lemberg and Grodno. 1 A Moscow report says the Soviet claims to have taken GO,OOO prisoners, 280 cannon, and 120 aeroplanes. The latest broadcast from Warsaw said that the city had a quiet day. The Polish forces were attacking, not merely defending.’ The commanders had no time to issue communiques. “Weimust hold out for political and moral reasons, the broadcast stated. • . A communique issued by the Warsav( defence army says Polish troops advanced over two miles in the west sector, retaking the suburbs of Praga and Wola and capturing many prisoners and three heavy and seven light machine-guns. Light horse dislodged the entrenched Germans. Daventry reports that in a broadcast, the Lord Mayor of Warsaw stated that when he asked Britain and France to come to Poland’s rescue it was not a sign of weakness. “On the contrary we shall work and fight harder than hitherto,” he said. “Every day brings us nearer to victory. We are going on fighting, confident, in our own strength, and with the knowledge that our allies will not desert us. We are confident that we will win.” Broadcasting to the people of Warsaw, the Polish Ambassador in London gave an assurance that their saciifices would not be in vain, and that they were fully understood in London. Daventry announced last night that-a meeting of butchers had been held in Warsaw to arrange the slaughtering of horses and the distribution of horseflesh. '