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The day in dispatches
Filed through the day, as it happened
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Berlin's word is not evidence that Warsaw has fallen
LONDON The German High Command said this afternoon that its armoured troops had entered Warsaw at 5.15, Berlin time. The Polish Embassy in London called that completely false this evening. Those two statements are all the evidence there is. There is no third account, observer, photograph or named commander.
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Canada's opposition leader tells the Commons this war is Canada's war
OTTAWA Robert Manion, the leader of Canada's Opposition, told the House of Commons today that to him this war is Canada's war. He set out the causes for which he said Canada is going to war alongside Britain and France.
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Japanese Canadians pledge loyalty and service to Ottawa
VANCOUVER The Japanese Canadian Citizens League has sent the Prime Minister, Mackenzie King, a telegram pledging the loyalty and service of its members.
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Berlin and the Polish Embassy give opposite accounts of Warsaw
LONDON Berlin says its armoured troops entered Warsaw this afternoon. The Polish Embassy in London says that is completely false, and adds that the city is being bombed at this moment.
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Polish Embassy in London says the Warsaw report is completely false
LONDON The German announcement that troops have entered Warsaw is completely false, the Polish Embassy in London said this evening.
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Washington applies its neutrality law to South Africa
WASHINGTON President Roosevelt has issued two further proclamations applying American neutrality law to the state of war between Germany and the Union of South Africa.
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Warsaw radio silent since morning as Berlin claims to be in the city
STOCKHOLM Warsaw radio has been silent since this morning, and Berlin said this afternoon that its armoured troops had entered the city.
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Roosevelt proclaims a limited national emergency
WASHINGTON President Roosevelt has proclaimed a national emergency, limited to the enforcement of American neutrality and the strengthening of national defense within peace-time authorizations.
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Berlin says its armoured troops have entered Warsaw
BERLIN German armoured troops entered Warsaw at 5.15 this afternoon, Berlin time, the German Supreme High Command says.
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Roosevelt says there is no food shortage in prospect
WASHINGTON The United States has ample food supplies and no shortage is in prospect, President Roosevelt told his press conference today.
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Two ships lost to suspected mines and no government says whose
LONDON Two ships were reported lost today to what survivors believe were mines. One was a Dutch minesweeper in Dutch coastal waters, and the other was a German steamer south of the Øresund. In neither case has any government said whose mines they were.
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German steamer sunk south of the Øresund with seven lost
COPENHAGEN The German steamer Helfrid Bismark has been sunk south of the Øresund, the strait between Denmark and Sweden. Seven of her crew are reported killed and seven were brought ashore.
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Paris papers report a seven-mile advance that the communiqué leaves out
PARIS Several Paris papers said this afternoon that the northern flank of the French advance has gone seven or eight miles into Germany. This morning's official statement says only that there have been local advances.
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Dutch minesweeper lost with 29 reported dead
AMSTERDAM A Dutch minesweeper has been disabled by an explosion in Dutch coastal waters, and 29 of her crew are reported killed.
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French communiqué reports local advances in the Saar
PARIS French troops have made new local advances in the Saar sector and have strengthened their forward positions, the French War Ministry says.
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Earle Page to give up the Country Party leadership
CANBERRA Sir Earle Page announced this evening that he will submit his resignation as leader of Australia's Country Party.
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Berlin places its armoured forces at Nadarzyn, south-west of Warsaw
BERLIN German armoured forces are at Nadarzyn, south-west of Warsaw, the German High Command says. It says its columns have also passed Pułtusk, Mszczonów and Rawa Mazowiecka.
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Berlin says 25,000 Polish prisoners and Warsaw says 1,500
STOCKHOLM Berlin says it has taken 25,000 Polish prisoners, and Warsaw says the figure is about 1,500. The German figure is nearly seventeen times the Polish one, which is too wide a gap for further reporting to close.
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Warsaw radio says only 1,500 Poles have been taken prisoner
BUDAPEST German forces have taken about 1,500 Polish soldiers prisoner in the first week of the war, Warsaw radio said this morning. The German High Command has given a figure of 25,000.
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Warsaw radio is heard again and calls on the city to dig defences
BUDAPEST Warsaw radio was broadcasting again this morning after a day of silence on Thursday. Listeners in Budapest picked up the station in the early hours.
Where things stood at the start of the day
- Poland
- Berlin says Westerplatte surrendered at twenty past ten yesterday and puts the garrison at 120 men, giving no figure for the dead or taken. Polish radio was still broadcasting that the position is defending itself, and Warsaw reports eight air raids.
- The Atlantic
- Chamberlain has told the Commons that three or four British merchant ships have been sunk besides the Athenia, naming none and giving no positions. A convoy system is being established, and the government has still given no figure for British aircraft lost.
- Britain at home
- About 1,475,000 children and mothers have been moved out of British cities since 1 September, the Prime Minister says. More than ten million leaflets have been dropped over northern and western Germany on three successive nights, and the aircraft reported no enemy action.
- Western Front
- The plainest public statement about the French army came from London: Chamberlain told the Commons that French forces are in contact with the enemy on the common frontier. The Paris communiqué has said less than that for three days and still names no sector.
- The Empire
- Canada's Parliament opened its special war session and adjourned without declaring war. Smuts has set the limits of South Africa's war: defence of the Union and the Cape route, and help with trade, shipping and finance.
- Neutrals
- Japan has told the European powers it will concentrate on China and stay out of their war, and its talks with Britain over Tientsin are suspended. Switzerland has imposed a visa requirement on foreigners as people reach its frontier from countries at war.