NOT YET BEGUN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1939, Page 8

NOT YET BEGUN

REAL BATTLE FOR WARSAW POLES VAINLY ENDEAVOURING TO BREAK THROUGH. SOME FIGHTING IN OTHER AREAS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.50 a.in.) LONDON, September 22. , The Associated Press of America's Berlin correspondent says it is asserted that the real battle for Warsaw has not yet started. The Polish defenders arc still counter-attacking vainly and endeavouring to break through the German lines investing the suburb of Praga. The Poles arc holding out in Gdynia area, and also between the Vistula and Bug rivers. Reich industry will absorb 240,000 Polish prisoners Milk is prohibited for adults after September 25. No newspaper has mentioned President Roosevelt’s address. SOVIET TACTICS PEASANTRY LET LOOSE. LOOTING OF PROPERTY AND ESTATES. (Received This Day, Noon). LONDON, September 22. The Bucharest correspondent of “The Times” states that the Russians are reported to have let loose the peasantry in Poland. The latter are looting and seizing property and large estates. President Mcscicki and Colonel Beck are watching over the interests of their hundred thousand fellow refugees in Rumania, but their position under international law is obscure. The position is complicated by clear suggestions that unless they are promptly interned, it Will be regarded by Germany as a breach of neutrality. Rumania is studying the position. She is anxious punctiliously to observe neutrality, while preserving courtesy to Poland, wfth which country she has a friendly alliance. The presence of Russian forces has revived uneasiness, which has been latent since the occupation of Bessarabia. The Government has announced the grant of fresh minority privileges to German communities in Bessarabia, presumably with the object of countering Russian designs. HUNGARIAN FRONTIER ARRIVAL OF RUSSIAN TROOPS. (Received This Day, Noon). BUDAPEST, September 22. Soviet trbops have arrived on the Russo-Hungarian frontier. GERMAN DEFEAT STALIN’S REPORIED VIEW.! WARNING TO BULGARIA. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, September 22. Interesting light on Russian policy is shed ifi reports of M Stalin’s conversations with representatives of the States in which Moscow has displayed particular interest. It is said that M Stalin warned a Bulgarian delegation, before signing the Russian-German treaty, to beware of being drawn into the war on the side of Germany, because she was fated to suffer defeat. Thus the impression is formed that M Stalin’s policy is based on the idea that Britain will finally win, but that he wants to prevent her winning cheaply, because it would lead to an Anglo-Saxon hegemony in Europe, which would be dangerous to future Russian development.