A vivid impression of wartime conditions in' Poland. was given by Reuter's special correspondent when "ho arrived during the might in, this Rumanian frontier town from Wai saw in a British Embassy ear ram: med with the staff of the Embassy. Most evacuating Britons were women, The Journey from the Polish capital took 33% days, and was marked by constant, air-raid alarms.
The correspondent says the une expectedly rapid "advance of the Germans distressed but has not discouraged the Poles who are proud their army fs Mghting against over whelming odds, The- entire Polish population Is said to be convinced that the Allies will win in the west, The most disturbing feature of the military. situation, the correspondent dds, Is that the German advance from Slovakia Is threatening the Bug-Vistula line, where the Polish command word convinced they would be able to make a long stand, Paris, Sept. 1 Polish resistance is becoming stiffer on the San River and central Vistula sectors, according to reliable informa tion reaching here. The Polish Army has still a large number of reserves be brought in on those fronts Germans Retreating Lrwow, Sept. 11.
Germay troops are retreating from the suburbs of Warsaw, a Polish Gor eral Staff communique announced here today. The Polish radio station in Warsaw is still functioning. The communique warsed the population against German broadcasting stations, which were using call-signs of the Warsaw station and broadcasting inaccurate war news. The capture of Warsaw by German troops was ai nounced by one el these German stations acting as the official Polish radio station, The communique says Lwow was bombed six times by German planes yesterday. "Many civilians were killed in Zneisenie, a Warsaw suburb. Passengers on a train which left Wat saw for Lwow had to leave the train The British and French Embassies, which arrived on Tuesday at the temporary capital near Lublin, southeast of Warsaw, learned almost mediately that the village was untenable and were ordered to pack for an unknown destination in the Pinske marshes—Reuter. no less than 72 times to take shelter from bombings by German planes, Along the Vistula, the enemy Jaunched a new attack with the port of mechanized units, while the situation "was unchanged on the Ostrow-Mazowiecki-Boguz River front, the communique concluded.
Transport Much Impeded Bucharest, Sept. 11.
Arriving here today from Warsaw, a Havas correspondent reported that from the Polish capital to Lublin, German' planes. constantly bombed the only railroad in that region and neighbouring strategic points. Trans port has considerably slowed down from Potand to hungary "and" Rue On Tuesday and Thursday last, German planes dropped a number of small calibre bombs on railway stations, thus impeding the transport of wounded Polish troops to Lwow fand the sending of war material to Warsaw.
Gangs of workers are off hand after every bombing, and speedily repair damage done to the railway.
The correspondent reported that conditions are less favourable for the Poles due to superiority of German war material, but despite this the morale of the people and troops could not be better. News of operations on the Western Front in Germany and reports of the evacuation of the fon from Stuttgart and Franke Main caused wild enthusiasm among the Polish population.
Loss of ground by the Poles is readily admitted in oficial communi ques, but the people are in no way downhearted, hoping that operations on the Western' Front will compel the Germans to remove troops from Poland to face the British and French forees. Havas, a At 1130 psn. yesterday, the Polish official P.A.T, news agency stated that Gdrman troops were checked in all attacks on Polish lines near Warsa German prisoners-of-war, it declared, when questioned by the Polish authoritles, Were found not to have been informed that Britain and France had declared war on the Relch.—Havas.
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