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The day in dispatches
Filed through the day, as it happened
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Neutrality is being redrawn while Warsaw is being bombed
LONDON Two things happened today on the same clock. A European capital was bombed and shelled from eight in the morning until dark. And in Washington and in Panama City, the countries that are not in this war spent the day working out the terms on which they will stay out of it.
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Warsaw has taken the heaviest day of the siege and is still holding
STOCKHOLM Warsaw has been under air and artillery attack since eight o'clock this morning, on a scale the city has not seen before, and at the end of the day the Polish garrison is still in it.
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Pittman publishes the neutrality bill's terms and the committee waits
WASHINGTON Senator Key Pittman made public today the main provisions of the neutrality bill now before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which he chairs.
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At least 60,000 Polish refugees reported to have reached Rumania
BUCHAREST At least 60,000 Polish war refugees have reached Rumania, according to reports from the frontier region today.
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Estonia's foreign minister is back from Moscow and nothing is explained
TALLINN Karl Selter, the Estonian foreign minister, returned to Tallinn this afternoon from talks in Moscow.
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Welles urges the American republics to act together on neutrality
PANAMA CITY The nations of the Americas should meet the dangers of the European war together rather than separately, Sumner Welles told the conference of American foreign ministers here today.
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Poles aged 17 to 45 in France ordered to report by Friday
PARIS Polish men aged between 17 and 45 living in France have been ordered to report by 29 September for compulsory service in a Polish army being formed in France.
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French troops attack German positions in the Haardt mountains
PARIS French troops struck at German positions in the Haardt mountains today, and French artillery fired on sections of the Siegfried Line, according to the French account of the day.
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Warsaw radio keeps broadcasting through a day of bombing and shelling
WARSAW Broadcasts from Warsaw radio have continued through today's attack, and they are one of the few ways anything is getting out of the besieged city.
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Moscow says its troops are advancing to the demarcation line
MOSCOW Soviet forces are continuing their advance toward the line agreed with Germany and have taken 10,000 prisoners south of Brest-Litovsk, a Soviet communique said today.
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Berlin says its aircraft are attacking military targets in Warsaw
BERLIN German aircraft are attacking military objectives inside Warsaw, the German High Command said in its account of the day's operations, issued in Berlin and distributed by the German news agency.
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Warsaw under the heaviest air attack of the siege so far
WARSAW German aircraft began attacking Warsaw at about 08:00 local time this morning and are still over the city, with German artillery firing on it at the same time.
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Turkey's foreign minister arrives in Moscow for talks with the Soviet government
MOSCOW Sukru Saracoglu, the Turkish foreign minister, has arrived in Moscow for negotiations with the Soviet government.
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Germany's new food cards take effect and run to 22 October
BERLIN Germany's revised food rationing rules take effect today, and the new ration cards cover the four weeks to 22 October, the German press has reported.
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Japanese drive on Changsha continues and China says it is held
SHANGHAI Japanese forces are continuing their drive on Changsha in southern China, and Chinese commanders say the attack has been held, according to reports reaching Shanghai.
Where things stood at the start of the day
- Warsaw
- The capital is surrounded and under daily bombing and shelling. Its water supply has been badly disrupted by damage to the waterworks and its radio is working on short wave.
- The demarcation line
- German and Soviet forces are moving to the line agreed between them, which runs along the Pissa, the Narew, the Vistula and the San.
- Eastern Poland
- Moscow says it holds Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk and that its forces are still moving west. The position of the remaining Polish forces in the east is unclear.
- The Western Front
- French and German troops are in contact in the Saar and the Haardt. There has been no general engagement.
- At sea
- Britain is stopping neutral shipping for contraband. German claims of Allied and neutral ships sunk have not been confirmed.
- The neutrals
- Twenty-one American republics are in conference at Panama. The United States Congress is sitting on whether to lift the arms embargo.