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The day in dispatches
Filed through the day, as it happened
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The Government should answer the Indian Congress
LONDON The Congress Working Committee's statement has been in London for two days, and the Government has yet to answer it.
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Paris says the Germans are destroying villages as they fall back
PARIS German troops are destroying villages as they withdraw in front of the French advance, the French High Command says.
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Berlin and Warsaw give conflicting accounts of the fighting at the capital
LONDON Berlin and Warsaw issued conflicting accounts today of the same hours of fighting at the Polish capital.
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Warsaw radio says the defence is holding and Hel is still fighting
WARSAW The defence of Warsaw is continuing and German attacks from the north-east have been checked, Polish radio said this afternoon.
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A New Yorker writer describes London's first week of the war
LONDON Mollie Panter-Downes, who writes from London for The New Yorker, describes the city's first week of the war in a letter published in the magazine's issue dated today. Her letter is dated the 10th.
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British contraband control is removing cargoes, and shippers bear the cost
NEW YORK The British system for stopping cargo bound for Germany is taking significant quantities off ships, according to reports from London today.
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Frontier armistice leaves the boundary itself to a four-man commission
HONG KONG Four months of fighting on the Mongolian frontier ended this afternoon at an hour fixed by a written agreement.
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German command claims the ring at Kutno is tightening
BERLIN Fresh German divisions have been put into the ring around the Polish army encircled near Kutno, and the ring is being narrowed by attack, the German High Command says.
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Fighting on the Mongolian frontier stops at two o'clock
MOSCOW Fighting between Soviet and Japanese forces on the Mongolian frontier has stopped under the armistice published in Moscow this morning.
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Disarming of the Polish submarine Orzeł continues at Tallinn
STOCKHOLM Work to disarm the Polish submarine Orzeł continued at Tallinn this morning.
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Moscow publishes the terms of the Soviet-Japanese armistice
MOSCOW These are extracts. TASS, the official Soviet agency, published the agreement in this morning's Moscow press. What follows is the operative part as transmitted: the hour of cessation, the line to be held, the exchange of prisoners and dead, and the commission. The full Russian text and the passages describing the negotiations have yet to reach the Allied Press Service.
Official statement
Official text
Japanese and Manchukuoan forces on one side, and Soviet and Mongolian forces on the other, are to cease all military activity in the area of the conflict at two o'clock in the afternoon, Moscow time, on 16 September.
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Lindbergh gives the embargo's defenders a voice outside the Senate
WASHINGTON Opponents of repealing the arms embargo have now made their case to the public twice in two nights. Senator Borah spoke against repeal on the 14th, and Colonel Lindbergh spoke against it last night.
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Lindbergh broadcasts against American entry into the war
WASHINGTON Colonel Charles Lindbergh has argued in a nationwide radio address that the United States should stay out of the war in Europe.
Where things stood at the start of the day
- Poland
- Berlin's claim that the ring around Warsaw was closed reached the agencies on the 15th. Polish radio was still transmitting.
- Western Front
- The French advance reached the German fortified line. The artillery preparation was still going on.
- Baltic
- Estonia interned the Polish submarine Orzeł at Tallinn and began disarming her.
- Far East
- Moscow was reported to have stopped the fighting with Japan. No terms had been published.
- Washington
- Senator Borah told a national audience that repealing the arms embargo would mean intervention. Congress meets on 21 September.
- India
- The Congress Working Committee set out the terms on which it would support the war. The Viceroy had not replied.