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The day in dispatches
Filed through the day, as it happened
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Berlin should not be the only source for Warsaw's surrender
STOCKHOLM A capital of more than a million people is said tonight to have surrendered unconditionally. The announcement comes from the German High Command, which is to say from the army that has spent three weeks shelling and bombing it.
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Ribbentrop is in Moscow for the second time in five weeks
STOCKHOLM Joachim von Ribbentrop landed at Moscow airport this afternoon and was driven into a capital he last visited on 23 August, when he signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union that few governments in Europe had thought possible.
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Warsaw's defenders and Berlin describe the same day differently
LONDON Two accounts of Warsaw arrived in London today and they do not describe the same city.
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Berlin says Warsaw has capitulated unconditionally
BERLIN Warsaw has capitulated unconditionally and the city will be handed over on 29 September, the German High Command said tonight.
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Berlin orders a military administration for occupied Polish territory
BERLIN Germany has established a military administration for the occupied Polish territories, according to an announcement carried in the German press under a Berlin dateline today.
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The crew of the Royal Sceptre has landed safely in Brazil
LONDON The crew of the British merchant ship Royal Sceptre has landed safely at a port near Bahia, in Brazil, according to a cable reported by Reuter today.
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Welles puts a security plan for American waters to the conference
PANAMA CITY Sumner Welles, the American under secretary of state, has put a program for protecting American waters and commerce to the conference of American republics here, the Associated Press reports.
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Ribbentrop arrives in Moscow for talks on Poland
MOSCOW Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German foreign minister, arrived at Moscow airport at 17:50 local time, 14:50 GMT, for talks with the Soviet government.
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Simon raises the standard rate of income tax to 7s 6d
LONDON The standard rate of income tax is to rise to 7s 6d in the pound for a full year, Sir John Simon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, told the House of Commons today in Britain's first war budget.
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Churchill says no British ship was hit in the North Sea
LONDON No British ship was hit and no British casualties were suffered in a German air attack on a British squadron in the North Sea yesterday, Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, told the House of Commons today.
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Modlin is still fighting, Warsaw's command says
WARSAW Modlin is still defending itself against German attacks, according to a Polish communiqué issued today.
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Warsaw reports fires and says water and food are running short
WARSAW Warsaw is under continuous bombardment, with fires burning across the city and its water supply badly short, according to messages from the Polish capital reaching London today.
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An armistice is reported in Warsaw while terms are discussed
WARSAW An armistice was agreed at Warsaw at midday while terms of capitulation are discussed, Exchange Telegraph reports.
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Berlin says Warsaw's commander has offered to give up the city
BERLIN The Polish commander in Warsaw offered this morning to surrender the city and its garrison, the German High Command said today, and General Johannes Blaskowitz has been told to conduct the negotiations.
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Moscow says Estonia's account of the submarine's escape is unsatisfactory
MOSCOW Estonia's explanation of how an interned Polish submarine escaped from Tallinn is unsatisfactory, Tass, the Soviet news agency, said today.
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The Senate committee is still working on the neutrality bill
WASHINGTON The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is still working on the administration's neutrality bill and has taken no decision, the Associated Press reports.
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The first British artillery units in France are in position
LONDON The first British artillery units to reach France are now installed and their field preparations are going forward, according to an official "Eye-Witness" account issued today and carried by Reuter.
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France reports patrols and artillery fire on the Saar front
PARIS French and German troops exchanged artillery fire and made contact between patrols along the Saar front overnight, according to the French High Command's communiqué.
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Bucharest denies reports of tension with the Soviet Union
BUCHAREST Official circles in Bucharest have categorically denied reports of tension between Romania and the Soviet Union, Reuter reports.
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New Zealand creates a special force for service at home and abroad
WELLINGTON New Zealand has created a Special Force for service inside the country and beyond it, under emergency regulations published in a Gazette Extraordinary today.
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 Berlin says the operation to take the city has begun.
- 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 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 and is convoying its own. Germany and Britain have given incompatible accounts of an air attack on a British squadron in the North Sea.
- The neutrals
- Twenty-one American republics are in conference at Panama. The United States Congress is sitting on whether to lift the arms embargo.
Background · The siege of Warsaw
How Warsaw came to be surrounded
Warsaw has been encircled since the middle of September and under air and artillery attack since the first days of the war. This is where the siege stands.
Warsaw has been encircled since the middle of September. German forces reached the outskirts in the second week of the war and closed around the city, cutting the roads east.
The capital has been under air attack since the first days of the war and under artillery fire since the encirclement. Its waterworks have been damaged and the water supply badly disrupted. Fires have been burning in the city for days, and messages reaching London describe dead and wounded in the streets.
Warsaw's radio has been the city's link to the outside world and has been heard intermittently. A London newspaper reported that it was silent through the night of 26 September.