Canada is at war with Germany. The proclamation reached the Department of External Affairs in Ottawa early this afternoon, seven days after Britain's declaration. Washington applied its neutrality law and its arms embargo to Canada the same evening.

Berlin has changed its account of Warsaw. Yesterday it said its troops had reached the city centre; today it says they withdrew to the outskirts. Warsaw radio is still broadcasting and says the defenders are giving ground slowly. Lwow has been told by radio to prepare for a siege.

France reports advances between the Saar and the Vosges. German wireless acknowledges French armoured cars on German soil and claims casualties and prisoners. How much ground has changed hands is disputed.

Moscow has named five military districts in its call-up of reserves and has not said where the men are going.

Two more British merchant ships are reported lost, the crews rescued.

Still open tonight: the position around Warsaw, where the Polish Government is, the depth of the French advance, Soviet intentions, the merchant ships still held under contraband control at Gibraltar, and who sank the Athenia.

Warsaw is the story everyone is watching and nobody can settle. Berlin said yesterday that its troops had reached the centre of the city. Today Berlin says they came out again. Warsaw radio is still broadcasting and says the defenders are giving ground slowly. That is where the fighting stands, and it is not much to go on.

Look away from the capital and the day is a great deal clearer.

Canada declared war this afternoon, seven days after Britain, by its own vote and its own proclamation. Within hours Washington applied American neutrality law to Canada and embargoed the sale of American arms to it. Paris prohibited the export of capital and took control of dealings in gold and foreign exchange. Moscow called reserves in five military districts and would not say where they are going. In Canberra the leader of the Opposition set out the limits of the manpower his party will support. In Buenos Aires a neutral government stopped a German airline from flying.

WASHINGTON President Roosevelt has issued two proclamations applying American neutrality law to the war between Germany and Canada.

Proclamation 2359 extends the existing neutrality provisions. Proclamation 2360 extends the embargo on exports of arms, ammunition and implements of war, which means American arms cannot be sold to Canada any more than to Germany.

Canada declared war this afternoon.

OTTAWA Britain declared war on 3 September. Canada declared war this afternoon. The week between the two is the whole point, and Ottawa has been fairly open about wanting it noticed.

Since 1931 a Dominion's declaration has been its own act rather than a consequence of Britain's. Canada has now used that machinery in full: Parliament recalled, the war debate held, the Address adopted late on Saturday night, the King's approval obtained, the proclamation made by the Governor General and published in a special edition of the Gazette. The edition was printed to carry one document.

The Commonwealth has produced four answers to the same question in eight days. Australia and New Zealand treated Britain's declaration as covering them and said so within hours. South Africa's parliament divided over it and changed its government. Canada waited and voted.

OTTAWA Canada is at war with Germany.

A special edition of the Canada Gazette carrying the proclamation reached the Department of External Affairs early this afternoon. That delivery was the point officials had arranged in advance as the moment the country would be formally at war.

The proclamation was made by the Governor General with the King's approval. Britain declared war seven days ago. The Canadian House approved the Address supporting participation at 22:25 last night.

BUENOS AIRES Argentina has cancelled permits for trial flights planned by a German-owned South American airline.

The government says the concern is that airmen could locate British warships and report their positions. It has not said that any such flight has taken place.

Argentina is neutral.

STOCKHOLM Yesterday Berlin said German troops had reached the centre of Warsaw. Today Berlin says those troops withdrew to the outskirts to wait for the main army. Nobody in Berlin has explained the difference between the two statements, and nobody has been asked to in public.

Warsaw radio has gone on broadcasting through both. It says the defenders are giving ground slowly and that the Germans have made no important gains. It gives no positions either.

The third account is the one that reached this city yesterday, when the Swedish Legation told Stockholm that Warsaw was not occupied. The Legation is inside the city. That makes it the closest of the three to the thing being described, and it still only says what Warsaw is not.

GLASGOW The Scottish National Council for Refugees says it will give financial help to refugees from Germany who were aboard the Athenia.

The Glasgow German-Jewish Aid Committee is to look after them until sailings to Canada and the United States can resume. They were crossing the Atlantic when the ship was sunk.

Responsibility for the sinking is still disputed.

LONDON 110 citizens' advice centres have opened across London. They deal with separation allowances, rent, and hire-purchase agreements.

British Official Wireless says the scheme is meant to go beyond the capital. No figure has been given for how many centres are planned elsewhere, or when.

Britain has been at war for a week.

JERUSALEM Moshe Shertok says the Jewish Agency's offer of assistance to Britain is not necessarily confined to Palestine, and indicates that Jewish volunteers could serve with British forces elsewhere.

Separately, the Arab Higher Committee, which remains outlawed, announces support for Britain in the European conflict within Arab regions only.

Both statements appear in today's Jewish Telegraphic Agency bulletin. They were issued separately and the two bodies are not acting together.

Shertok also proposes an "armistice" over the parts of the White Paper left unenforced.

CANBERRA John Curtin, the leader of the Opposition, says Federal Labor will not support conscription for service overseas, and will not agree to Australia sending a military force abroad under the policy now proposed.

He says Australian manpower is needed first for Australia's own security.

Curtin spoke in a broadcast from Canberra this evening. This is the Opposition's position and not the government's.

LONDON The Ministry of Information says the British steamers Winkleigh and Goodwood have been sunk and that all crew members were rescued. Several men aboard the Goodwood were injured.

No independent account of the cause has been given, and the announcement gives no position for either sinking. The Ministry says both ships were torpedoed.

PARIS A French communiqué says a series of "methodic actions" has produced advances between the Saar and the Vosges. It does not name the ground taken.

German wireless separately acknowledges that French armoured cars have crossed onto German territory, and claims French casualties and prisoners.

Both sides now say French troops are on German soil. Everything beyond that is disputed, including the French claim yesterday that almost all the Warndt Forest was in French hands. Today's communiqué does not repeat it.

PARIS The Republic has published decrees prohibiting the export of capital and placing dealings in gold and foreign exchange under state control. They are dated yesterday and appear in the Journal Officiel this morning.

France did this in the last war too, though not in the first week of it.

The decrees regulate what may leave the country and licence what may be traded. They do not say for how long. Nothing in them is framed as temporary, and nothing in them is framed as permanent either.

Whether the measures will hold the franc is not a question anyone here will answer in September. What they do tell you is what the government expects of the months ahead: a state that intends to fight briefly does not take control of its gold on the eighth day.

BERLIN A German government spokesman says the motorised troops that reached central Warsaw yesterday withdrew to the outskirts to wait for the main army.

Berlin's account yesterday was that the city had been reached. Its account today is that the troops came out again.

Warsaw radio has continued broadcasting throughout. The Swedish Legation in the city reported yesterday that Warsaw was not occupied.

LWOW Polish radio has told the people of Lwow to prepare to resist a siege on the scale of Warsaw's.

The broadcasts carry repeated air-raid alarms and practical instructions, among them that children should be identified by name.

Polish radio says German forces are pressing towards the city's communications, without saying how far away they are or in what strength. Lwów lies more than 200 miles east of Warsaw.

CALCUTTA Jawaharlal Nehru's message to his colleagues in the United Provinces appears this morning in the National Herald. He wrote it here yesterday, having come back from China in the first week of the war.

The message tells Congress to end its petty bickerings and face the crisis together. It ties the emergency to the demand for a free India, which is the demand Nehru left with and the one he has returned to.

He went to China to see a war that has been running since 1937. He came back into a different one, and the message reads as though he is still deciding how the two connect.

TOKYO Prime Minister Nobuyuki Abe says Japan is not intervening in the European war.

He says Japan's relations with the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain and France may be readjusted. He does not say what that would involve. He also rejects the idea that the war in Europe gives Japan an easier settlement in China.

This is the Abe government's stated policy.

OTTAWA The Canadian House of Commons has approved the Address supporting Canada's participation in the war. The vote came at 22:25 last night in Ottawa, 02:25 GMT.

Canada is not at war until a proclamation follows, and the government has not said when it will be issued. The Address is the parliamentary stage; the proclamation is the legal one.

Warsaw radio was still transmitting overnight. In broadcasts monitored during the night the station says the city's defenders are giving ground slowly and that German forces have made no important gains.

It gives no positions. This is the Polish account and it cannot be checked from outside the city.

Berlin said yesterday that its troops had reached central Warsaw.