The following is the {ull text of the letter of the Soviet Foreign Commissar, M. Viacheslav Molotoft to. the Polish Ambassador, M.—Waclaw Grgybowski, in which the entry of Soviet troops into Poland was announced:
"Your Excellency, the war between Germany and Poland has placed in evidence the internal inviolability of the Polish state. During the eighteen days of military operations, Poland lost all her industrial zones' and her cultural centres. Warsaw has ceased exist as a capital. The Polish Government is giving no sign of life. This means that the Polish state and fig Government have effectively ceased 10 exist; consequently treaties existing between Soviet Russia and Poland lost their validity.
"Abandoned to herself and deprived of leaders Poland has been transform= fed into an arena open to all sorts of hazards and surprises liable to constitute a threat to Soviet Russia. Consequently, the Soviet Government, which remained neutral until now, can no longer maintain its neutrality in presence of these events, The Soviet Government likewise cannot remain indifferent to the fact that Ukrainians and White Russians related by blood to Russia who are living in Poland have been abandoned and are without protection.
"In presence of this situation, the Soviet Government gave instructions to the High Command of the Red Army to order troops to cross the frontier and to protect the lives and property of the Ukrainian and White Russian populations. At the same time, the Soviet Union intends to take all measures to free the Polish people from an unfortunate war into which they were thrown by their unreason-leaders and to make it possible them to live a peaceful life."—Havas, London, Sept. 18.
'The Latvian Minister in Moscow, common with the representatives' of other states, has received an assur-
Jance from ihe Soviet that a policy of neutrality will be pursued towards Latvia, states a Latvian news agency message from Riga. "It goes without saying." the message adds, "that the authorities will resist any attempt to violate the frontier."
The Rumanian Minister has received Berlin, Sept. 18, German troops advanced towards Drohobyez, Magierow and Krasnystaw, a DNB. communique announc ced today. The retreat of Polish forees cast of Lublin was cut off. German air forces successfully at-facked Polish troop concentrations south-west of Wyszogrod and no Polish planes were seen on any front, the communique stated.
On the Western front, it says, no Important operation was reported, One French plane was shot down by. a German pursuit machine near Saarbriicken, but _no air attack was garned out over German territory
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.