Budapest, Sept. 26.
ERMAN artillery is methodically demolishing the city of Warsaw radio station indicated yesterday in its broadcasts, Half the city was burning the radio said, and explosions of shells were incessant.
Many were wounded, including women and children, and they lay in the' open streets receiving first aid treatments. (Exchange dispatches from London said a thousand civilians were Killed in the city in a 24-hour period.)
The radio broadcast said an aeroplane bomb hit one church during mass. The priest interrupted himself long enough to urge the worshippers to keep calm, and then continued with the service, the radio declared. There was no further word of infantry action from the radio.
However, the broadcast reiterated the morals of the city was still high, and the defenders still hoped for assistance from the Allies.
Dispatches from Warsaw yesterday reported that the Warsaw defenders were runting short of ammunition, Dut had repelled another German assault by hand-to-hand fighting in the suburbs. Several regiments saved their ammunition, waiting until the attacking Nazis were close enough for liliand-to-hand fighting, the report said.
"The defenders used tank barricades which lifted the front of the tanks, exposing their undersides. Flaming follesoaked rags were then thrown Beneath the tanks, causing them to explode, the dispatches said.
It was reported that above 100 separate fires were burning in Ware Saw as a result of the heavy shelling, from the German artillery, and two air raids.
It was estimated several thousands of civilians were killed and wounded the last few days—United Press, fore opposition to the German attack, according to Polish reports, During the night they threw back a number fof German tunk attacks on the west Bank of the Vistula taking" many prisoners.
Terrible Bombardment Fire from the Modlin guns in the old Russian fortress at Novageorglv was holding the Germans clear of Warsaw's northern and western suburbs, according to reports from the city. fet)
Despite bad weather, the German air force twice bombed Warsaw, ddding bombs to the artillery's incen diary shells, French military experts contend that Warsaw is going through the most destructive bombardment in nis~ tory, surpassing the violence of any other siege in the last two centuries. raw Bitterly Fighting Paris, Sept. 26.
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