REPORTED BY GERMANS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 September 1939, Page 7

REPORTED BY GERMANS

Capitulation After Heroic Defence NEGOTIATIONS FOLLOW OFFER TO SURRENDER (By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 'Phis Day, 8.45 a.m.) BERLIN, September 27. IT IS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED THAT THE COMMANDER DEFENDING WARSAW HAS OFFERED TO SURRENDER AND THAT GENERAL BLACKOWITZ HAS BEEN COMMISSIONED TO NEGOTIATE. A WASHINGTON MESSAGE STATES THAT THE GERMAN EMBASSY HAS ANNOUNCED THAT IT HAS RECEIVED OFFICIAL INFORMATION THAT WARSAW CAPITULATED AT 10.30, WARSAW TIME. CITY’S TERRIBLE ORDEAL Rain of Incendiary Bombs STORY OF VAIN BUT HEROIC EFFORTS (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY, September 27. Some indication of the terrible ordeal the city underwent before surrendering was given by the Warsaw radio yesterday, on the twenty-first day of the siege. This message, describing continuous air raids and shelling by heavy artillery, was published by the Ministry of Information. It says: “Hundreds of incendiary bombs caused numerous fires. Most of the public buildings in the city are in flames. The number of fires probably exceeds fifty. Fire brigades and civilians are with the utmost heroism fighting the flames. Their task is being made more difficult owing to the scarcity of water. The food situation is also difficult, especially distribution, which is very complicated owing to continual shelling and bombing. Hundreds of horses killed by shells in the city’s streets are immediately butchered and distributed for consumption. Public utility institutions are performing miracles.” The “Manchester Guardian,” commenting on Warsaw’s resistance, said: “To find that instead of help we can only give our admiration, is a terrible wound to our pride and our conscience.”