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“under fire” and Gdynia, the communique said, had been bombed.
6 — . | In Paris the German radio re-| ported that the Poles and Germans mutually have entirely blockaded | the ports of Gdynia and Danzig. Polish artillery bombarded the Beuthen Railway station on German soil at 11:30 a. m. today, the D.N.B.,| official German news agency, announced. Polish Plane Drops Bombs
The agency said that “five or six shots” from 75 mm. guns detonated in a clump of trees without causing | damage | D.N.B. announced also that Polish airplane dropped six bombs on a workers settlement in Hohenlinger Strasse in the Beuthen subirb of Preiskretscham. Slight property damage resuited but no casualties were reported Beuthen is on the river Oder about 20 miles from the border be-
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| Hitler began in his speech. “We all {suffer from the problems created by | — the Versailles Treaty.” |
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| | (Wilhelm Frick) execute this reunion “6. The law is in force Sept. 1.”
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He then declared that Danzig is| a German city and that the Polish] Corridor was and is German, all the territories involved owing their cul-| ture to the German people only. | Any attempt of the powers to} change the status is bound to fail} Hitler said. | “I believe that the entire German | will welcome my political
tinued. “Russia and Germany both| § suffered when fighting each other]! in the World War. i “This will and shall not happen | a second time. Hitler fully indorsed the speech of Soviet Premier Viacheslav Mol- | otov before the Soviet Parliament] in connection with the pact. | ~ “I agree with every word of it,”| & | he said. | IF “I am resolved to solve the ques-| [8 TY tion of the Corridor, and that a! Sa peaceful living together of Ger-| mans and Poles will be assured. “I am resolved to fight as long as the Poles want it. I will remove
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As the war of nerves broke into a war of bombs and shells today on the Continent, London hurried its ill and crippled from hospitals.
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knew of them only through a radio broadcast. He castigated the Nazi Government, declaring: “As long as that Government
exists and pursues its motives of [the last two years, there will be (no peace in Europe.”
King Breaks Precedent
Mr. Chamberlain was entirely in | black, e xcept for a white wing collar. After he had spoken, the House {of Commons without a record vote | approved a war credit of 500,000,000 (pounds (roughly $2,250,000,0000) for | defense, for maintenance of public \ | order and for efficient prosecution 4 (of any war in which Britain might » |be engaged. Before he spoke precedents were " |broken by the King's motoring to (10 Downing St., the Prime Minister's (residence, to see Mr. Chamberlain. {It was announced the King wanted |to save the Prime Minister's time, but such a thing never happened be-
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fight against women and children. I have ordered my air force to limit themselves to military objectives.” | “But if our opponent takes this as an occasion to do the contrary, he will get an answer which he cannot misunderstand. ‘Bomb for Bomb’ “They are shooting back sat and from now swered with bomb. Who fights with poison will be fought with poison. shall conduct this fight no matter against whom until the security of the Reich and our rights are guaranteed.” “If I call on this Army and if I ask sacrifices from the German peo{ple IT am entitled to do so. “For myself I am ready to make any personal sacrifice. I do not ask is Yat forces. said for anything I am not willing to do orders to the fighting IOrces, St or doing myself. My entire life be«1 have told the air force to re-
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The first news broadcast to Ger-! mans regarding the military campaign said that the armed forces had been given orders to stop “Polish violence.” As a result. the broadcast said, the Army has assumed “active protection” of the Reich and started “the counter-attack,” with aircraft squadrons covering military o©bjectives. / " The main theme of Herr Hitler's speech to the suddenly summoned Reichstag was an obvious desire to localize German-Polish hostilities. The announcement expected by | some Nazis of a military alliance with Soviet Russia did not materialjze nor did a definite announcement of Italy's position, although the Fuehrer made it clear he had not
called for any aid from any foreign Even Youngsters Realize power , “Wish te Be First Soldier” Trip to Country Is No Vacation.
tween Germany and the Polish Corridor. . Herr Hitler annexed Danzig and sent his armed forces Surging across the Polish frontier in an undeclared “lightning” war Germany's army crossed Polish frontiers in what Nazis officially de-| scribed as a “counter-attack.” Nazi airplanes bombed Polish cities | which were deemed to be “fortified.” The German Navy assumed defense of the Baltic Sea After the vast Nazi war machine| «p moved into action at 5:45 a. m (10:45 p. m. Indianapolis Time, Thursday) Hitler appeared before a suddenly called session of thej Reichstag, which approved his action in seizing Danzig
“Protect” Reich The Fuehrer, referring to his
but the first soldier of the Reich. I shall not remove my soldier's coat unless I have won the victory. If something should happen to me in this struggle, Herr Goering will be my successor. If something happens to him, Herr Hess will succeed. You
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the hostilities inasmuch as United States is a neutral party. | “Germany has entered Poland,” { Acting Secretary of Navy Edison radioed to the fleet and shore | stations. “Fighting and bombing in progress. You will govern yourselves | accordingly” —meaning that vessels {in foreign ports or on the high seas |are to govern themselves by international law covering the rights and
Britain and France Reply Favorably to Plea Against Civilian Bombings.
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| | mittee who refused to report on any | neutrality legislation, said that the obligations of neutrals. | European conflict had not altered! There were indications that the | hi ; Maritime Commission was preparing is SL410 agains! fepéal of she arms {eo call U. S. merchant vessels from (embargo in the Neutrality Act. He ,ther runs to aid in the evacuation opposed a special session at this'of U. S. Nationals from the war ‘ | zones. “The news from Europe is terrify- | An announcement was expected ! bcd 0s | within a few hours concerning de|ing and grievious but I will not let| .. 04 evacuation plans. {my sympathy run away with my] err | judgment,” Senator VanNuys said. Rumania Expected | “Every red-blooded American would | : | revolt against bombings and aggres- To Announce Neutrality sive acts but the conflict is too lo-| BUCHAREST, Sept. 1 (U. P).— calized vet to create a need for Rumania was expected to announce formally, possibly this afternoon, The President reviewed detailed! her neutrality in the conflict benational defense plans in an hour's|tween Germany and Poland. conference with the highest offivials | Officials indicated that the Cabiof the War and Navy Departments. net would meet shortly with King
Defense Discussed [oat presiding. Secretary of War Harry H. Wood-
ring, on leaving the White House, Japanese Cabinet said the conference was a ‘complete Considers Situation discussion of national defense.” | TORYO, Sept. 1 (U. P). — The Participating in the conference Japanese Cabinet met today to conwere Secretary Woodring, Assistant giger the European situation and to Secretary of War Louis Johnson, hear reports from the War Ministry Chief of Staff General George C.| received from attaches in Europe. Marshall, Acting Secretary of the —————— Navy Charles Edison and Admiral KILLED IN AUTO CRASH Harold R. Stark, Chief of gis PLYMOUTH, Ind, Sept. 1 (U. P.). Operations. | —~Edward Bowern, 50, of Chicago,
quick, triumphant | Poland. which could be conciuded wtihout the aid of Italy and before the British French could take action to aid the Poles. Such a plan had long been envisaged by some Nazis, providing for a peace conference before the big powers were involved in the war. The Fuehrer gave the impression that he was tired when he greeted the Reichstag after Marshal Her-| mann Goering, publicly announced as Herr Hitler's “successor” in event of the Fuehrer's death, had opened the session Herr Hitler read his speech slowly. Frequently he leaned against the speaker's stand Then, as he reached the climax, there was a surge of his old fiery oratory “I have no other desire,” he cried, “than to be first soldier of Germany.”
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Polish Diplomats Leave
The Polish Embassy announced | that its staff was departing from Berlin immediately. Hitler namer Field Marshal Hermann Goering, righthand man, to be his successor ‘if anything should happen to me in this struggle,” and named Rudolph Hess, deputy Nazi Party leader, his second heir {
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The sequelice of events on this, “Der Tag" was: 1. Germany, after announcing a 16-point program of demands against Poland, said that Poland had rejected it | 2. Every agency of Nazi publicity started to jam through reports of Polish irregular attacks in the frontier area. 3. Albert Forster, of Danzig state, proclaimed Danzig's reunion to the Reich, announced himself as supreme Danzig leader and appealed to Hitler to accept Danzig. 4 Hitler responded thanking him, announcing that a law effect- | ing the union of Danzig with Germany would be passed at once, and naming Forster civil leader. * 3 5. The Nazi Reichstag (many of the members already had been summoned to Berlin), met at 10:10 a. m 6. Hitler began speaking at 10:12 and finished at 10:45 (3:45 a. m. Indianapolis Time) 7. As soon as Hitler finished, the Reichstag unanimously, by rising vote, adopted the following law: “Law concerning the reunion of the Free City of Danzig with the German Reich. “1. Danzig's law of reunion with Germany is hereby made a Reich law. “2. Citizens of Danzig are German subjects. “3. Except for the constitution] (which Forster had abrogated) the old law will prevail in Danzig. “4, All German laws will be in force in Danzig from Jan. 1, 1940. ! “5. The Reich minister of interior!
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LONDON, Sept. 1 (U. P).—The| Asked whether he cared to say army of the helpless also mobilized | 2nVthing about the chance of this otlay country staying out of war, Mr. ay | Roosevelt replied: The vanguard of 3.000,000 persons| “Only this: That I not only —the young, the lame, the halt and sincerely hope so, but I believe we the blind—streamed out of Britain's can stay out, and taht every effort cities in one of the great mass| Will be made by the Administration movements of history, a flight to So to do.” “destinations unknown.” Lord Lothian, new British amChildren led the wav out of the bassador, conferred with Secretary “target areas” of the cities, areas!of Stave Cordell Hull for 15 minutes. that wouid be the first to feel the| “In these uncertainties it is natimpact of death from the skies if!|ural that there should be exchanges war comes. {of information,” Lord Lothian told They were told that they were go-! reporters. ing on a holiday, but mothers don't} + stand weeping along train tracks as Fuehrer Replies to F. D. R. they did today if a boy or a girl is| German officials here said that simply going to the country for a Fuehrer Hitler had replied to Presholiday. The children knew that|jdent Roosevelt's messages to him this was another kind of holidav— of Aug. 25 and 26. The Embassy a holiday from death and broken referred al! inquiries as to details bones and smashed faces. | to American officials. “I Know Better” It was stated that the reply was i sent to the State Department this Peter Selmes, 8, wearing a ‘blue morning and probably has been coat and dark brown trousers with a! communicated to both President patch on the seat, spoke for all of| paosevelt and Secretary of State them old encugh to speak, when he| gun. =i NUR 2 yi Jk in his eye: The State Department did not dei RE mn gong, but tM know when it would be made public. And Ian Channel. 10. also knew. War news aroused Mr. Roosevelt
: | 8 ly . m. £ i= that this was no autumn pleasure | S00 Jer LB mn day. He sit trip to green fields and clean, run-| none $ &
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“My mother told me that I was| Self to war. look for apples.” he said, “but I know better. v My brother is in the Navy and he| In his appeal against air bombsaid the Germans were going to INE. the President said to the Eubomb London.” [FoFean POWers: . Children from 4 to 16 years of age, If resort is had to this form of came first. They were pouring out|inhuman barbarism during t of schools, homes and hospitals. period of the tragic conflagration with which the world is now conSome on Stretchers fronted, hundreds of thousands of Most of them marched in precise! innocent human beings, who have double file, but out of Charing Cross No responsibility for and who are Hospital came ‘a battalion that/not even remotely participating in couldn't march because they were on|the hostilities which have now stretchers. They had toys tied to|broken out, will lose their lives.” their stretchers and most of the| He asked each Government “to voung ones clasped teddy bears and affirm its determination that its pandas. armed forces shall in no event and A little girl held tightly to a smallj under no circumstances undertake bunch of flowers as her stretcher|the bombardment from the air of
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she seemed almost ready to cry. But fied cities upon the understanding just then a postman rushed up and [that these same rules of warfare handed her a letter and a smile will be scrupulously observed by all {of their opponents.” One who never lost his smile was| . Dennis Darby, 13, a chubby boy | Britain, France Reply Favorably whose wheel chair was pushed up| Secretary Hull announced that a ramp into an ambulance. Steel Britain and France have responded from the skies held no terror for favorably to the appeal to refrain him, for he has been paralyzed from from bombing civilians. birth and has spent almost all of! The British Government replied his life sitting in a chair. The rule formally that it would refrain from was that the most seriously crippled bombing civilians and unfortified left first, and scores of boys andicities as long as Britain's military girls stood around and supported adversaries likewise refrained. themselves as best they could on| The French Government informed crutches and leg irons while Dennis| American Ambassador William OC. was stowed safely into the am- Bullitt in Paris that France has bulance. (taken favorable action on the All over England it was going on. President's appeal.
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The enormity of the job was infact that 700,000 school children must be removed from London alone. All week-end it will go on, and authorities hoped that enemy planes would not darken the London skies before
Ready for Mr. Roosevelt's signature lay a pile of executive orders, each of which would invoke one or more of the tremendous emergency powers which repose in him.
Ships Are Informed
He ordered that naval ships and shore stations and army commands be informed of the outbreak of hostilities on the Polish plains. War and Navy Departments flashed the news around the world, Officers said the purpose of the notification was
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BERLIN, Sept. 1 (U. P.).—Col. tion order signed by the King today. Gen. Waither | Chamberlain revealed that Sir
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{Army commander-in-chief, has is-| bassador to Berlin, has been insued the following order of the day: | structed to hand the German Gov“Soldiers: The hour for trial has €rnment what amounts to an ulti‘come. After all other means have | Matum, saying that unless Germany been exhausted, arms must decide. | SUSPends aggressive action and Conscious of our just cause we fight | withdraws from Poland, the British for a clear objective: Everlastingly | Government unhesitatingly will fulto secure the German people and All its treaty obligations to Poland. German Lebensraum (living room) Britain and France Agree against alien aggression and claims of supremacy. ... Mr. Chamberlain emphasized that | “Under the supreme command of | Britain had gone to the extreme (the Fuehrer we shall fight and win. | limit to reach a peaceful settlement | “Forward with God for Germany.” | and oat Poland had done nothing — | to obstruct negotiations for | WARSAW, Sept 1 (U. Pj settiones "°F Sen | President Ignacy Moscicki today is-| He said France as well as Britain sued the following proclamation: had instructed their ambassadors “The entire nation is blessed hv|to ask for their passports unless God in the struggle for its holy and |German troops are withdrawn from HShleous cause and in union with |Poland. the army, will march in close ranks Britain and France, Mr. Chamfo the fight and to complete vic-| perlain declared. have agreed that [VOrY, Germany has committed an agi gressive act threatening the inde-
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League Staff Leaves Danzig
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ANZIG, Sept. 1 (U. P).— Prof. Karl Burckhardt, the League of Nations Commissioner for Danzig, and his staff left by automobile today after a Nazi declaration reuniting the I:ee City with the Reich. A oig crowd celebrated Prof. Burckhardt's departure. He had called on Albert Forster, the Nazi Fuehrer oi Ianzig, before he departed and it was understood Herr Forster advised him officially of the anschluss.
PARIS ORDERS MOBILIZATION
State of Siege Declared; Poland Turns Down Mussolini Bid.
INFIRST THRUST
Missiles Aimed at Gydnia Fall into Sea; Nazi Troops Cross Frontier.
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deep into Polish territory and after German planes had bombed Polish cities.
The state of war proclamation was in no wise a declaration of war, It was a domestic measure designed to put war-time regulations into effect.
Poland probably will seek to avoid an outright declaration of war in order to avoid handicaps which might then be imposed on the nation by the U. S. neutrality law. The proclamation issued by the President was required by the Polish Constitution in order to put the nation fully on a war-time basis. Political sources said that the Sejm (Parliament) might be summoned shortly. An official announcement said
PARIS, Sept. 1 (U. P.).—The Cabinet today ordered general mobilization placing an Army of 6,500,000 into the field. The Cabinet also ordered a special ; meeting of parliament tomorrow, |three men and two women had
A new order for the evacuation of | Peen Younded "oe the Fe i Paris was issued, insisting that all|Pardments o arsaw today. No
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the capital at once. The mobilization affects Army,| Navy and Air Force reserves. The
It was announced that German planes bombed Warsaw, Krakow, the port of Gdynia, the Katovice | Airport, and five other towns.
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first mobilization day will be SOMI0r=} row, it was announced. | The Government then declared a| state of siege throughout France | and Algeria. The Polish Ambassador formally | notified Foreign Minister Georges | Bonnet today that Germany had committed an act of aggression. Poland invoked the French-Polish muture guarantee treaty on the] ground that a cause of war had oc- | curred. The action paralleled a similar step in London. Mussolini Asks Parley Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy| transmitted to France today a pro- | posal for a five-power European peace conference, Highest Polish sources here said the Polish Government had refused the proposal. “The offer of intervention by Italy was unacceptable in peace-time and is doubly unacceptable now with the Germany Army invading Poland and the German Air Force bombing Polish cities,” Polish sources said. Some Polish observers took the viewpoint that the Mussolini offer coming after the Nazi attack would merely give Germany a chance to force Poland to give away territory at the conference table. Accept Roosevelt Plea Sig. Mussolini's proposal for a peace conference to mediate the| Polish-German conflict was telephoned to Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet by the Italian Ambassador. At the same time, Ambassador William C. Bullitt handed Bonnett the appeal of President Roosevelt for the big powers to pledge themselves not to bomb open cities. Bonnet immediately accepted the proposal for France. M. Bonnet, with tears in his eyes, announced France's acceptance of Mr. Roosevelt's “humanitarian appeal” but said that nine Polish towns already had been bombed. In connection with the message
The bombs aimed at Gdynia dropped into the sea. It appeared in Warsaw that all the raids were of light character, and seemed ine tended more as a warning than anything else, possibly devised to throw fear into the Polish people,
Upper Silesia is Target
A direct German offensive in the direction of Polish Upper Silesia was announced. It was believed the greatest drive would come there be cause of the importance of Upper Silesia’s industrial equipment and also to cut off South Poland, which would be the most effective way of blocking war materials from Rue mania. It was announced that other offensives are in progress toward
| Czestochowa, north of Katovice; to-
wards Dzialdowo and Mlawa, on the southeastern Prussian border, and toward Ciechanow, south of Mlawa. Ciechanow is not more than 350 miles north of Warsaw but the Poles do not expect a big offensive to originate in East Prussia because the garrison there is believed to be too weak. Raiders Driven Off
Polish officials feared more raids today. The clouds which shrouded the capital during the first “warning” raid showed signs of breaking up under a hot sun, which would be of great advantage to the bombers. A second “warning” came at 9:13 a. m., but aside from some anti-air= craft bursts, nothing came of it. Sirens screamed for the third time at 12:40 p. m. today and 10 minutes later the heavy thud of anti-aircraft guns sounded from the west. The air raiders were not sighted and ap= parently were driven off. The fire brigade and military gar= rison were unable at the moment to say where the bombs had fallen earlier, but confirmed that bombs had been dropped in Warsaw. The populace displayed remark= able calm during the raid, although
from Sig. Mussolini, France made an anti-aircraft shells were bursting { unannounced reply to Italy. The re- | overhead and heavier detonationa, {ply emphasized that there would be | which everyone knew were bombs, (“no new Munich,” it was understood. were audible,
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