POLISH OFFICERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1939, Page 6

POLISH OFFICERS

SHOT BY RUSSIANS

OCCUPATION OPPOSED.

DESPERATE STAND MADE IN CATHEDRAL.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day. 11.55 a.m.) MOSCOW, September 25. A wireless message reports the shooting of captured Polish officers and landed gentry who resisted the Russian occupation of Grodno. They had taken refuge in the cathedral, which was desperately defended for two days. The Russians, under cover of tanks, crept to the walls and hurled hand grenades through a window. Polish snipers killed a number of Russian officers. Consequently Russians in retaliation shot all captives of rank, but spared private soldiers. A number of Polish officers fought for two days on Count Lubomirski's estate before they were captured and shot. GALICIAN OILFIELDS 1 WORKS BLOWN UP BY GERMANS. (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 25. A Budapest correspondent of “The Times"'states that Polish former employees at the natural gasworks in Galicia report that the Germans blew up the pipelines pumping stations of the refineries supplying fuel to Lwow industries in order to prevent them falling into Russian hands. HEROIC DEFENCE MODLIN ATTACKED ON EVERY SIDE. CUT OFF FROM WARSAW. ' (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) WARSAW, September 25. The heroic defence of the Modiin fortress, which the Germans have cut off from Warsaw, continues, despite attacks from every side. Polish nocturnal sorties along the left bank of the Vistula have resulted in the capture of prisoners. ARMIES OF REFUGEES IN RUMANIA & HUNGARY SOLDIERS AND OFFICIALS INTERNED. (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) NEW YORK. September 25. A Bucharest correspondent of the Associated Press of America states that the Rumanian Government has interned uniformed Polish officers, soldiers and officials, including President Moscicki, Colonel Beck and Marshal Smigly-.Rydz. It is estimated that 12,000 officers and soldiers are interned at military camps, apart from ten thousand civil servants, while uncounted thousands of civilians have crossed the Dniester and Pruth Rivers and are now scattered throughout Rumania. Hungary has a hundred thousand refugees and does not want any more. The Yugoslavian authorities are refusing visas because the country is overcrowded with Albanians, Austrians and Czechoslovakians.