RAIN OF BOMBS

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20921, 28 September 1939, Page 7

RAIN OF BOMBS

WARSAW’S TERRIBLE PLIGHT REDUCING CITY TO RUINS RAIDS BY 200 AEROPLANES (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Sept. 26 A German High Command communique states that, as all efforts have failed to convince Warsaw that further resistance is useless, military | operations to reduce the city started yesterday. | Carrying out their threat to re- | duce Warsaw to ruins, the Germans j have intensified their artillery and ■ air bombardment of the city. ! “We are now continuously raided iby 200 aeroplanes and. shelled by ! heavy artillery,” said the Warsaw j wireless announced last night, i “Hundreds of incendiary bombs | have been dropped, and these have I caused more than 50 fires, which are | difficult to fight owing to the scarcity i of water. “The food situation also is difficult. Horses killed in the streets by German shells are immediately cut up and distributed for consumption.” Terrible Massacre The French Ambassador to Poland said in an interview that the Germans sent 2000 aeroplanes against Poland, of which 1000 were continuously sowing terror and destroying any living thing they could see. Clear moonlit nights prevented the Polish fighters counter-attacking. The German armies, thanks to the dry ground, advanced as much as 50 miles daily, but wherever they j met Poles of equal strength the Poles j proved themselves superior in courage. Widespread and intensive espionage also helped the Germans. The Poles, however, could have held out in East Poland but for the Rus- , sian invasion. i The French and British I Ambassadors witnessed a masj sacre of peasantry by airmen at Kremieuiec on September 12.