POLES’ SACRIFICE

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20923, 30 September 1939, Page 7

POLES’ SACRIFICE

SURRENDER OF WARSAW GERMANS ENTER CITY WRONGS TO BE RIGHTED (Official Wireless) (Received Sept. 30, 1 pjn.) RUGBY, Sept. 29 The announcement that on the surrender of Warsaw the German Army today will enter the city and, as the Times remarks, “earn such measure of glory as may be thought the due of those who have exploited with the most ruthless efficiency the immense superiority of numbers and still more overwhelming superiority of armament,” is made the occasion for tributes in the press to the courage of the defenders and reaffirmations of a determination to right Poland’s wrong. The Times says:— “England and France are determined to devote the utmost of their strength to Poland’s restoration. Warsaw has been offered up by her citizens to the destroyer, a sacrifice for the liberties not only of Poland but of the world.” The Herald says: “Civilised men will not forget Warsaw any more than they forgot Belgium in 1914. The real victors of Warsaw, as of Madrid before it, are the men, women and children who showed themselves ready to face death rather than submit. Their heroism will be remembered and their sacrifice repaid.”