CONTROL BY SOVIET

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20917, 23 September 1939, Page 7

CONTROL BY SOVIET

THE INVASION OF POLAND LIFE ASSUMING NORMALITY STALIN’S PICTURE EVERYWHERE (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Cooyrls&t> (Received Sept. 23, 11 a.m.) MOSCOW, Sept. 22 A communique claims the occupation of Pinsk as part of the final mop-ping-up operations in the occupied areas. The Tass Agency says that life in the occupied towns and villages is resuming normality. It is claimed that the local populations are jubilant over the Russian liberation, and they co-opcrating in the work of reorganisation, providing representatives on the new' administrative bodies and electing peasants’ committees in the villages. Detachmeuts of workers’ guards are being formed in the country districts to maintain order. The publication has begun of newspapers in the Ukrainian and White Russian dialects. Theatre artists are arriving from Moscow and portraits of M. Stalin are appearing everywhere. The Soviet press for the first time announces that a Dneiper river war patrol entered Polish waters on Monday evening without resistance. The Moscow correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says the Soviet press yesterday for the first time reported Hitler’s Danzig speech, but it omitted his assertion that he no longer wants the Ukraine, also his remarks about the Russo-German agreement concerning the deciding of Poland’s future. Many Planes Brought Down In a broadcast, M. Lipinski, a former Polish official at Danzig, said that up to September 20, the defenders of Warsaw had brought clown 87 aeroplanes. The Poles had advanced several miles to the westward, he added. He described the destruction of German tanks by soldiers who leapt on to them and threw in petrol torches. Informed quarters declare that the lack of decisive military action against Warsaw constitutes subtle propaganda designed to influence the United States Congress in connection with the discussion of neutrality, says the Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain. It is not expected that shelling, bombing and violent attacks will be directed against the capital while important decisions have to be made at Washington. Hitler’s friendly gestures to France and assurances that the Reich has no war aims against Britain and France are regarded as being directed toward keeping the United States from war. Nazis Warn the World The Nazi press to-day warns the world to expect what the Hamburg Fremdenblatt calls ‘‘another British propaganda torpedo,” like the report of the German threat against the Belgian frontier. The Allgemeine Zeitung says:— “Germany has achieved her war aim—namely, the conquest of Poland. The West does not interest us. Of course, if we are attacked we will defend ourselves as effectively as possible.” However, the Germans have apparently overlooked the fact that, while Warsaw radio remains the city’s sole link with the outside world, it is impossible to deceive anybody regarding what is occurring in Poland. The station this morning announced that heavy artillery was taking a great toll of women and children. The population was constantly fighting new outbreaks of fire, repairing new damage and clearing up refuse. Devastating Air Raid Following a successful Polish eounler-attack, 30 German aeroplanes carried out a devastating raid, but seven were shot down. The announcer said that the streets were still running blood, and priests were administering the last sacrament to men, women and children, who were dyino everywhere.