STOCKHOLM Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German foreign minister, is to fly to Moscow tomorrow at the invitation of the Soviet government, five weeks after he went there to sign the non-aggression pact that preceded the invasion of Poland.

LONDON Warsaw has been surrounded since the middle of the month and under air and artillery attack for most of that time, and the British government said this afternoon that the city is still holding out.

MOSCOW Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German foreign minister, will arrive in Moscow tomorrow at the invitation of the Soviet government to discuss questions arising from developments in Poland, the Soviet news agency Tass announced tonight.

BUCHAREST Responsible circles in Bucharest are anxious after reports that Soviet formations are moving towards the Bessarabian frontier, according to the Exchange Telegraph correspondent there.

PARIS Fighting in the west was limited to artillery and reconnaissance today, according to the official accounts given in London and Berlin.

PARIS The French government has dissolved the Communist Party and the organisations attached to it by decree-law, and has prohibited any activity spreading the directives of the Communist International.

LONDON British shipping losses to submarines have fallen in each week of the war so far, Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, told the House of Commons this afternoon.

LONDON Britain has seized about 256,000 tons of goods in the first three weeks of the war on evidence that they were contraband consigned to Germany, Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons this afternoon.

LONDON Warsaw and the Hel peninsula are both still holding out under continuous German bombardment, the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, told the House of Commons this afternoon.

STOCKHOLM Sweden has ordered a temporary halt to shipments of pulp, cellulose and timber while the circumstances of recent sinkings of Swedish ships are established, according to reports from Stockholm.

BERLIN German troops took 2,000 prisoners in brief fighting east of the lower San, the German High Command said today, in an action it attributes to an armoured division.

LONDON Warsaw's radio stations were silent through last night for the first time since the war began, according to a report reaching London today, which says the city is in flames.

LONDON Nine Polish airmen have landed somewhere in England after what is described as a hazardous journey out of Poland, according to a report from London today.

SHANGHAI About 20,000 soldiers are estimated to have been killed in the fighting around Changsha, according to reports reaching Shanghai, with each army claiming to have killed 10,000 of the other's men.

MELBOURNE Merchant ships are being fitted with guns for their own defence and some are being converted into armed merchant cruisers, the Australian Navy Board said today.