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The day in dispatches
Filed through the day, as it happened
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Borah opens the embargo fight on the radio a week before Congress meets
WASHINGTON Senator William Borah goes on the air tonight to argue that the arms embargo should stay. He is the first senator to take the argument to the public since the President summoned Congress.
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Colville puts Scotland's evacuees at 175,000, with returns uncounted
LONDON Scotland moved 175,000 people out of its cities in the evacuation, 135,000 of them children, the Secretary of State for Scotland, John Colville, told the Commons this evening.
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Commons votes 223 to one for a ministerial veto on hiring key workers
LONDON The House of Commons voted 223 to one this afternoon to give the Control of Employment Bill a second reading. The division was called at 16:24 GMT, two hours and twenty minutes after the debate opened.
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Chamberlain says Britain will never bomb civilians for terror while Germany shows restraint
LONDON Britain will never resort to "deliberate attack on women and children, or other civilians for purposes of mere terrorism", Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons this afternoon.
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Britain counts 50,000 enemy aliens and will hear their cases individually
LONDON About 50,000 enemy aliens are in Britain and about 35,000 of them are refugees, according to an official account of the Government's policy issued today.
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Berlin's claim to Gdynia is still unconfirmed three hours later
STOCKHOLM Berlin's announcement that German troops are in Gdynia and that the garrison is surrendering reached Stockholm this morning. As of 12:30 GMT the Polish side has yet to confirm it, deny it or qualify it.
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Berlin says its troops entered Gdynia this morning and the garrison is surrendering
BERLIN German troops entered Gdynia at 09:15 GMT this morning and the Polish garrison of the port is surrendering, the German authorities announced in Berlin. The announcement gives the time as 10:15 local time.
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Catholic bishops of England and Wales declare support for the war
LONDON The Roman Catholic bishops of England and Wales have declared their support for Britain's cause and called on Catholics to take part in national service, a cable from London reports.
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Greymouth has enlisted 119 men for New Zealand's Special Force
GREYMOUTH A total of 119 men from the Grey district and Hokitika had enlisted for New Zealand's Special Force at the Greymouth recruiting office by this afternoon, and the medical board has begun examining them.
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Borah to broadcast for the arms embargo a week before Congress meets
WASHINGTON Senator William Borah is to broadcast on Thursday evening in defence of the arms embargo, according to the programme published in Washington tonight. The address is billed as a plea to retain the embargo, which Borah says helps keep the United States out of war.
Where things stood at the start of the day
- Poland
- Warsaw and Modlin are under attack on Polish and German accounts that describe different sectors at different scales. Neither can be checked from outside.
- The Western Front
- British troops are in France and have not been in action; their strength and whereabouts are withheld. The French advance in the Saar is described in London as local and successful, without particulars.
- Casablanca
- The French Navy has announced the loss of a cruiser it names as La Tour d'Auvergne to an internal explosion on Wednesday morning. No casualty figure has been given and an inquiry is expected.
- Washington
- Congress is summoned for noon on 21 September. The President's proclamation gives no reason.
- Wardha
- The Congress Working Committee has been sitting since Sunday on India's position in the war. It has published nothing.
- Whitehall
- Service officers now sit inside the Ministry of Information to clear war news at source. The arrangement has not yet been tested by an announcement.