Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1939 — Page 3
§ REPORTS 12 BERMAN SUBS ME DESTROYED
French Informant Declares Only Seven of 27 Have Returned to Bases.
PARIS, Sept. 28 (U. P.).—An @uthoritativa informant said today that sccorfilng to unofficial and un- . confirmed reports only seven German submarines of an original wave of 27 sent to prey on Allied merchantmen: had returned to their bases. . | . The informant said that the Prench and British Admiralties were certain that 12 submarines had been destroyed. In its war communique this mornine, the 49th of the war, the French High Command said: “There ‘was a quiet night in all Bectors. An enemy attack west of . Baarbruecken failed. “Commercial sea navigation has resumed its regula gy rhythm, thanks to convoy organization and aerial end naval patrols.”
Allied Navies Co-operate
- Behind | the second paragraph of this communique was the story of French and British co-operation in protecting merchantmen and hunting submarines. The Allied Navies are operating in the closest liaison, and both are using coastal patrol airplanes which are in communication at all times with warships and shore bases. Both French and British warships, it was understood, are operating in the Mediterranean and Atlantic under an agreed plan. The second part of communique No. 49 said: “Our Air‘ Force, operating in fiaison with the British Air Force, shot down ‘several enemy chaser planes on the afternoon of the 27th. “Activity of our reconnaissance plancs continued throughout the . night.” | Claim Nazis Exaggerate
In connection with this statement, the French. assert that they definitely have air superiority so far on the Western Front and that the Germans are consistently exaggerating their own aerial successes. An informant said that the number of German planes shot down yesterday would be reported officially tomorrow, after a careful check. The High Command lists officially only German planes shot down within the French lines. . German chaser and reconnaissance “plane activity is becoming more noticeable, an informant said. He added that French reconnaissance planes flying into Germany reported that there was no indication of | preparations for a mass German attack on the Western Front. On the contrary, it was said, the Germans seemed to be still organieing their Westwall defense e. | :
Nazis Driven Back Near Perl, Is Report
LUXEMBOURG, Sept. 28 (U. P.). —Frontier messages today . said that a French attack near Perl had driven German troops from positions they had seized recently. Heavy French artillery last night shelled | German positions in the forest around Borg, about six miles northeast of Perl, for 80 minutes, the messages said. The bombardment was described as “so heavy that the sky looked like an ocean of flame.” The shelling was resumed at 1 p. m. and was still going on at 4
Pp. m. | Several unidentified planes flew over Luxembourg, frightening inhabitants. Heavy gunfire was heard a few minutes later from the southeast.
Reconnaissance Flights By British Reported
LONDON, Sept. 28 (U. P.).—The air ministry reported today that the Royal Air Force carried out further - successful reconnaissance flights "over Germany and the Western Front yesterday and and last night.
BERLIN, Sept. 28 28 (U. P.).—The German High Command asserted today that a French plane had been shot down in an air battle over Saarbruecken. It added that there had been no important activity on the Western Front.
New Pan-Slav Movement by Russia Feared, Peace Move Hinted.
BERLIN, Sept. 28 (U. P.).—Russia’s sudden and increasing interest in European affairs from the Baltic
Sea to the Dardanelles has caused concern in some quarters here, it was reported today. “Soviet Russia must henceforth be conferred with in any move by anyone in East Europe from the Arctic Sea to the Mediterranean,” one well-informed source said to the United Press. A special courier was expected to leave for Moscow today with secret instructions for Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in his negotiations with Russian leaders. Well-informed sources reported that - Ribbentrop’s talks, which started yesterday, would continue through tomorrow and Possibly through Saturday.
. What About Balkans?
" Details of the topics under discussion at Moscow were most difficult to obtain. Reliable informants said that subjects concerning the entire area from the Baltic to the Near East would be discussed. The altered status of the Baltic countries, as the result of Russia’s increased interest in problems along its western frontier, was marked particularly, as Berlin saw it, in the growing tension between Russia and Esthonia. Another very important topic, it was suggested, would be Russia’s reawakemning interest in the Balkan countries, which hitherto had beer regarded, in Berlin, as “exclusively” in the German and Italian sphere of influence. Russian recognition of Slovakia and resumption of cordial Soviet diplomatic relations’ with Bulgaria and Jugoslavia were regarded as the first step in this new policy. This Russian activity engendered some anxiety here over the possibility of a Pan-Slavic movement by Russia to gain influence throughout Slavic Europe. There was no evidence at present of any such intention. But it was evident, it was pointed out, that Russia had begun to play an active and in some cases decisive part in Eastern European affairs—after a virtual withdrawal from such interests following upon the collapse of the Spanish Republicans and the waning influence of the League of Nations.
Poland Principal Business
Informants said that the three or four days of talks which Herr von Ribbentrop was expected to -have in Moscow would not permit definite negotiations on the variety of topics mentioned -as of interest to Russia as well as to Germany. It was said that Herr von Ribbentrop’s main mission was settlement of questions arising from the completion of the Polish campaign. It was believed, however, that he would return here with at least an idea of Russia’s views on the entire Eastern ‘European situation. Reports continued that Germany, in co-operation with Italy, might make some sort of peace move within the next few days.
This is how the German and French armies stack up in the latest fighting Soviets ‘Re-Enter’ Europe; Germans Show ‘Concern’
Ribbentrop and Stalin Hold
Five-and-One-Half-Hour Talk, Meet Again.
MOSCOW, Sept. 28 (U. P.).—The Soviet Government announced a second submarine attack on a Russian ship off the Esthonian coast today as reports increased of direct demands by Moscow on the little Baltic state. Strong action against Esthonia was believed possible in diplomatic quarters, which speculated on the possibility that Russia might present Germany with an accomplished fact in the Esthonian dispute, The ship sunk today was the steamer Pioneer, attacked as it was entering Narva Bay, on the Esthonian coast. It was beached, a wreck, but. the crew was saved. Five were still missing from the 4000-ton steamer Metallist, sunk with 24 aboard just outside Narva Bay yesterday.
Report Islands Demanded The bay is on the Esthonian coast close to the Russian border. In Moscow the sinkings were viewed as the consequence of the escape of the Polish submarine Orzel from the harbor of Tallinn, Esthonian capital. The Soviet press claimed the escape had been abétted by Esthonian officials. It was reported, but not confirmed, that before the arrival here yesterday of German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Russia had demanded that Esthonia give up the important islands of Dagoe (Hiiu) and Oesal (Saare) off the west coast of Esthonia, near the Gulf of Riga and commanding the entrance to the Gulf of Finland. The grounds for the reported demand, it was said, was that Russia considered control of the islands necessary to assure its safety in view of alleged hostile submarine activity from a secret Baltic port— presumably in Esthonia.
Talks Almost Six Hours If Russia took action without consulting Germany, it would present Germany with a diplomatic fact which, in. the view of diplomatic quarters here, would strengthen its hand considerably in any general negotiations. Herr von Ribbentrop conferred for--51 hours—approaching a record for a single talk—with PremierForeign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov and Josef V. Stalin last night and early this morning, and resumed their conference at 2 p. m. today (5 a. m. Indianapolis Time). The talk began at 10 o'clock last night. Before he saw Comrades Molotov and Stalin, Ribbentrop had a long dinner talk at the German Embassy with Count Friedrich von der Schulenburg, the German Ambassador, and members of the Embassy Staff Count Schulenburg and A. A Schwartsev, Russian Ambassador to Berlin, were present at the Ribben-trop-Molotov-Stalin talk. Sukru Saracoglu, Turkish Foréign Minister, who preceded Herr von Ribbentrop here, remained in the background for the present. He, Premier Molotov and Russian War Commissar Klementi Voroshilov attended a luncheon yesterday at the
Turkish Embassy, with Ali Haidar Aktai, Turkish Ambassador, as host.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
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MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses. Frederick Suvder. 23, of 3643
Url Charlotte Ja sady, 31, of 0 ne 4233 Boulevard Place. °
Jefferson Jackson McDaniel, 21 st. 3: Ind: 1 llian G. Reiger, of 1
Hillard Armour, of Ya ; Marjorie Hancock, 19, In dtananells, Bay; Hejen
Arthur Johnson, 31, Indiana Ha Meads, eof SOL Sti End, pone poral 10 mith, 20. of 3if N Budd ; ¢ Eleanore fie SiS,, 2 28, diaper an;
BIRTHS Girls John, Elizabeth Basal, at Yale, lire Ross, St. Jo hot. fartha Sizhone , at St. Francis. e Smith, at ‘515 W. at 1014 Lex-
at 2809 Mac-
¥ Lien Vanbuster, Wilbur, Edns Garrison,
pills, Velma Gosnell, Boys Donald, Margaret Snider, at Coleman. Prank, 'Virgihia Diets, at St. Franc ar Thomas, Violet Pederson, at St. Pr Norman, Alberta Schultz, at Methodist. Meyer, Helen dering, at Methodist. Archie, Virginia Green, at Methodist. John, Anna Alberts, at 814 Virginia. »
DEATHS
Beatrice L. Turpin, 40, at 718 E. Iowa, chronic myocarditis. Datsy i alker, 63, at 2118 Gent, lobar pneum
a Mogg. 8 at Long, prain tumor. Eliza H hott, 1 at 1328 N. Olney, solonsty thrombo Bertha C. ARE. is at us N. Colorado, cardio vascular renal disea Joseph aylen, 57, at Veterans’, chronic
m Enocte} Parker, 52, at Long, carcinoma.
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FIRES
WEDNESDAY P. M.—Unjon Stock Yards, water
2:13 P. flow on roof, broken 4:28 P.M. ~Raymo Ni Bt. and Keystone
Ave. gra 4:47 —1850 N. Delaware St., residen roken smoke 4:58 P. M.—803 S. “Addison St. residence, stove explosion. loss not estimated.
~Lafayette and 11th 8ts., pole, ¢a use unknown,
9:06 P. M.—Rader and W. 25th Sts., false. alarm,
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INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST = Fair tonight and Friday, warmer tonight. Sunrise ...... 5:38 | Sunset ..... .5:38 TEMPERATURE * —Sept. 28, 1938— 68 Mooooeee 50. 1 D0 Muceseoa dB BAROMETER 6:30 a. m...29.96
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Lower Michigan: Showers: ining tonight or tomorrow; not so cool in seuth portion tonight, cooler tomorrow, much cooler at night
Ohio—TI creasing cloudiness and warmer tonight followed by £ showers tomorrow; warmer in Tortheas portion tomorrow, considerably cooler by Saturday. Kentucky: Incressing cloudiness tonight ollowed v loca showers tomorro warmer in extreme north portion Tonight. considerably cooler Saturday.
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Nazis Say Modlin, Key to City’s Defense on. North, Offers to Surrender.
By UNITED PRESS
The German Army High Command at Berlin announced today that the Poles had offered to surrender Modlin, ancient fortified city commanding the north entrance to Warsaw. The High Command yesterday announced the surrender of Warsaw and today said the city probably would be occupied tomorrow. The Polish Embassy at Paris, however, said that it had received a radio message from Warsaw today denying that the city had capitulated to the German Army and reporting fighting in progress at 10 a. m. (3 a. m. Indianapolis Time). The Embassy's message said that discussion of terms for capitulation may begin tomorrow.
Numerous Prisoners Claimed
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch said that much of the city, including the central quarter, was aflame. Whole streets were burning, it. was reported, and the population attempted to rush water in barrels in all types of vehicles. It was said the Poles captured numerous prisoners, four tanks and three guns. The Modlin fortress, built at the time of Napoleon’s invasion, is 10 miles northwest of Warsaw at the confluence of the Bug and Vistula Rivers. It had contributed much to the defense of Warsaw and Germans said it had held out 24 hours longer. Nazi newspapers today discussed without elation the reported fall .of Warsaw, fifth largest capital of Europe, which had been reduced in a 19-day siege to a city of death, ruin, hunger and disease.
Denies Defense Glorious,
“The defense of Warsaw was no gloricus act bringing honor also to the opponent rising above the sad spectacle of general catastrophe,” said Voelkischer Beobachter, organ of the Nazi Party. “What occurred
not a nation’s battle of desperation but the unloosing of madness and barbarism.” The Lokalanzeiger threatened: “It remains to be seen whether Warsaw’s discipline is adequate to enforce the cessation of fighting at all points.” ; Refugees reaching Bucharest from Warsaw by airpla..e reported extensive guerrilla fighting in woods and hills behind the German lines in West Poland, which the Germans had failed to “mop up” in their lightning advance.
¢ Strict Justice Promised The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
‘|spoke of what was to come: “Strict justice will be enforced in occupied territory by Rundstedt (Col. Gen.| Gerd von Rundstedt, named military -
administrator of occupied territory) and Frank (Hans Frank, civil ad= ministrator of occupied territory). The Nazi newspapers agreed that Warsaw's capitulation marked the end of the Polish campaign and said that German troops could have cap-
“respected the civilians” there. There had been no further word
was reported that an armistice had been called yesterday noon; that German and Polish military authorities were working out details of the “unconditional capitulation” and that Germans’ would
Formal Entry Tomorrow
Warsaw's radio, which since Sept. 8 had daily and nightly kept the world informed of the city’s heroic defense against the surrounding army that blasted, burned and starved its 100,000 troops and 1,000,000 civilians into submission, ‘could not be picked up in Berlin last night. From other sources—Transcon-
¢a| tinental Press in Paris, a Polish
agency, and accounts by Polish refugees in Rumania—it was reported that Warsaw’s past few days were of indescribable horror. Hundreds of fires, set by .incendiary bombs and artillery shells, had spread through the city. Civilian casualties on Tuesday alone were estimated at 3000. Bodies lay unattended in the streets. Slain horses. were butchered for meat. The city reservoir was destroyed and there was a shortage of drinking water. Wounded Fill Hospitals
Nine hospitals filled with wounded had. been destroyed by bombs. Most all churches and monuments were in ruins. The air was so heavy with smoke and dust it was difficult to breathe, and 200 airplanes and a ring of artillery kept up such a constant bombardment
58 ‘people burrowed into debris and could not get out to hunt food, A}
few epidemics had been kept under Sonirg) pu Ye lack of milk and resh vegetables ‘was end the ' children. angering A Red Army communique given out at Moscow on yesterday's operations in Poland said that Russians were pushing steadily westward to the demarcation line. Having advanced to within 65 miles
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from which they had retired the demarcation tion line. Yoward
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'BLOCKMIEEEHD,
Dealing With Britain and Reich Go to London.
LONDON, Sept. 28 .(U.P.).—Envoys of European countries which trade with both Great Britain and Germany are coming to London to discuss the situation which has
arisen from the British contraband control and Germany’s retaliatory|had blockade of the Baltic, it was dis-
Jclosed today.
A Copenhagen dispatch said that
representatives of Danish commerce |i
and industry would leave for London tomorrow. It was announced at The Hague that a Netherlands mission had procesded to London; yesterday. Active After Ship Is Sunk
At Stockholm delegates of the northern countries, including Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland, were to meet today to discuss the interchange of goods and mutual commercial aid during the
ar. The sudden activity of neutral nations came after the sinking of neutral merchantment by German submarines and the stopping yesterday of Danish and Swedish passenger ships. Russia also has expressed its willingness. to open trade conversations with Great Britain, it was understood. The Government has been urged unofficially, as the result of this .development, to send a special envoy of highest rank to Moscow’ to: conduct etonomic negotiations, it was reported. - Accept Taxation Program
Most newspapers today accepted the new taxation announced in the
John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, as the only alternative to inflation. Income tax, bringing people with incomes as low as $15 a week within taxable range; death duties, duties on beer, liquors, wines, sugar, tobacco all were increased. An excess profits tax of 60 per cent was imposed.
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House of Commons yesterday by Sir|.
Heavy Censorship Cloaks| "Tallinn, Reported Weakening.
HELSINGFORS, Finland, Sept. 28 (U. P.).—The Soviet. Navy was reported cruising in battle formation off the Esthonian coast today | as the Russian radio broadcast opened up with a vigorous campaign against the Esthonian Government. Usually reliable sources previously said that Esthonia accepted some of the Soviet demands for naval and economic co-operation
It i pe believed here, however, that the present Esthonian Government headed: by President Konstantin 'Paets and Premier Kaarel Eenpalu was regarded in Moscow as “not sufficiently friendly” toward the Soviets and tha. “reconstruction” of the regime might be undertaken to improva relations.
Two Ships Sunk
For the present, it was believed generally, tb Soviets would be satisfled with occupation of . several Esthonian islands which are strategically important to Russia. Russian reports of the sinking of
two Soviet freighters off the Es-|
thonian coast by an unidentified submarine were considered a serious aggravation of the crisis and as reducing’ the chances that Esthonia could withstand the Soviet demands. The sinkings, from the Russian viewpoint, would be a logical sequel to the escape from Tallinn, Esthonia, of the Polish submarine Orzel—an escape which Russia already had alleged was made possible only by the compliciiy of Esthonian officials.
Tallinn N2ws Censored
Censorship has been imposed in Tallinn, the Esthonian capital, and direct news reports were meager. One correspondent there said the government would only say that nothing ‘was shown of the sinking of any Russian ship. ‘Finnish sources reported that there was still hope. in Esthonian military circles that Germany would
Claim Cruiser Was Struck By 550-Pound Missile Dropped From Plane.
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today that a German air squadfon had struck a British heavy cruiser
mouth of the Firth of Forth, on the
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BERLIN, Sept. 28 (U., P).—The German High Command asserted
with a 550-pound bomb off the
Soa) he 8 the advice of Esthonian mil-|
‘upset the Baltic states’ equilibrium
: | from the Fifeshire Coast of Scotland <
Scottish Coast. | . An official communique said the
German bomb hit -the cruiser’s bow. . The point of attack, it was said, was near the Islé of May, six miles
: land only 27 miles from Edinburgh.
: Imand repeated its assertion of yes-
Premier Kaarel Eenpalu of Esthonia . . . his nation may be next.
to make any demands that would lead to the destruction of the Esthonian state. ~Such a development, it was pointed out here, would seriously
and constitute a grave menace to other Northern European nations. Even Soviet occupation of the islands of Dagoe and Oesel would materially change the strategic situation in the northern Baltic. The Red Army was reported to have taken new military “precautions” along the Esthonian frontier. It was noted that Esthonia announced that yesterday and the day béfore Russian military airplanes repeatedly violated Esthonian neutrality and added that a protest had been made to Russia.
CHURCH TO HEAR HOUSER ‘Dr. Charles M. Houser, Ft. Wayne, who recently returned from Eurcpe, will be the guest speaker at the annual rally banquet of the First Congregational Church to be held in the Church’ss Mayflower Room
i |terday that in an attack in the.
North Sea Tuesday, a German squadron struck a British aircraft carrier with an 1100-pound bomb
ships. The German version of the attack Tuesday at first was that an aircraft carrier had been “destroyed.” Later this was altered to say that the carrier was struck and it was added that “it is unnecessary to elaborate on the effect of these heavy bombs.” A German broadcast today hinted that the aircraft carrier was the 22,000-ton Ark Royal. The Berlin station urged the British to “ask
Royal is
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‘Another Lie,’
British Declare LONDON, Sept. 28 (U, P.).—The
not yet received any news of a
ish heavy cruiser. “We think it is another version of the North Sea lie which the First Lord of the Admiralty nailed yesterday,” a spokesman said. Regarding the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, which the German radio hinted might be the ship reportedly bombed yesterday, the Press Association announced that the big new ship is “safe and sound at its
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