The Archive · 1939

Japan to Shift Embassy

Warsaw, Sept. 6.

With 450 high-speed tanks in the vanguard, German troops wore push-Ing steadily toward Warsaw, according to reports from the front.

Polish Army quarters here admitted that the German big push on the capital wag under way. Mr, Shuichi Japanese Ambassador an-the Japanese Embassy would be evacuated and a temporary. Embassy established in the site of the new capital. Gunfire was heard In' the city. yesterday. Evacuation of the civilian population was pro ceeding rapidly." Most foreign newspapermen have already left but a few American correspondents re-

The Government, meanwhile, nounced that the Polish army holding its own along. most of the Polish cavalry, it said, ha invaded East Prussia between Klarschol and Kowalewo. The Germans were "retiring in panic", according to the communique.

Foreign embassies and other offices of foreigners were either deserted or working with skeleton staffs, British: and French newspaper correspondents were gone and only a handful of Americans remained. Except for embassy cars with huge fags tied to their roots, there was little suggestion of fan evacuation, The Polish army is still virtually intact, however, and will continue the war, possibly ' retiring behind the Vistula. At the present thine, however, it is bending before the overwhelming weight of German artillery, tanks and aeroplanes.—United Press.

London Uninformed of Bald London, Sept.

'The Ministry of Information' said today that it had no knowledge of Regret Expressed to

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