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The day in dispatches
Filed through the day, as it happened
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Poland's future should not be settled in Moscow without Poland
STOCKHOLM Joachim von Ribbentrop, Germany's foreign minister, has spent two days in Moscow in talks with Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov. Both governments say the subject is questions arising in Poland.
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The Ministry of Supply says 15 are believed killed in a factory explosion
LONDON Fifteen people are believed to have been killed and four injured in an explosion at a munitions factory in the north of England, the Ministry of Supply announced today.
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The Bank of England cuts Bank Rate from 4 to 3 percent
LONDON The Bank of England has reduced Bank Rate from 4 percent to 3 percent, Reuters reports from London.
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Warsaw and Berlin describe the city's capitulation in different terms
LONDON Warsaw and Berlin now both say the defence of the Polish capital is coming to an end, but they give different accounts of how.
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Senate committee votes 16 to 7 for the neutrality bill
WASHINGTON The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 16 to 7 today to send the administration's neutrality bill to the full Senate, Senator Claude Pepper, a Florida Democrat, announced at 13:20 Washington time (18:20 GMT).
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London denies Berlin's claim that a bomb hit a British cruiser
LONDON The Admiralty has denied a German claim that a British heavy cruiser was hit by a bomb off the east coast of Scotland, the Associated Press reports.
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Ribbentrop's talks in Moscow continue without an announcement
MOSCOW Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German foreign minister, held further talks today with Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet premier and foreign commissar, Reuters reports from Moscow.
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Chamberlain says the government's handling of news is under review
LONDON The arrangements for issuing government news are under review, including direct contact between government departments and the press, Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, told the House of Commons today.
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The blackout rules are under review, Anderson tells the Commons
LONDON The rules on the blackout are under review, Sir John Anderson, the Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security, told the House of Commons today.
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Warsaw's command says it is negotiating the capitulation of the city and Modlin
WARSAW Negotiations are under way for the conditional capitulation of Warsaw and the fortress of Modlin, the commander of Warsaw's defence says in a communiqué carried by Reuters.
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Swedish freighter Nyland is sunk after a submarine stops her
STAVANGER The Swedish freighter Nyland was stopped by a submarine early today and sunk several hours later, the Associated Press reports from Stavanger, Norway.
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German troops withdraw behind the line agreed with Moscow, AP reports
BERLIN The main body of German troops in eastern Poland has crossed the demarcation line agreed with the Soviet Union as planned, the German High Command says.
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Berlin says Modlin's commander has offered to surrender
BERLIN The commander of Modlin, a Polish fortress on the Vistula north-west of Warsaw, offered to surrender this morning, the German High Command says.
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France says a German attack west of Saarbrücken failed
PARIS A German attack west of Saarbrücken has failed, the French High Command said in its morning communiqué.
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Japanese forces are reported closing on Changsha
SHANGHAI Japanese forces are advancing on Changsha, the capital of Hunan province in central China, Reuters reports from Shanghai.
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Moscow radio says a submarine attacked a Soviet ship near Estonia
STOCKHOLM An unidentified submarine attacked the Soviet steamer Pioneer off the coast of Estonia, Moscow radio said early this morning.
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Where things stood at the start of the day
- Warsaw
- Berlin says the capital has capitulated unconditionally and will be handed over on 29 September. Warsaw's own command said on the 27th that the city and Modlin were still defending themselves and had sought an armistice.
- Moscow
- Ribbentrop is in Moscow for talks with the Soviet government on questions arising in Poland. No outcome has been announced.
- The demarcation line
- German and Soviet forces are moving to the line announced by Berlin and Moscow, along the Pissa, the Narew, the Vistula and the San.
- The Western Front
- French and German troops are in contact in the Saar. There has been no general engagement.
- At sea
- Churchill has told the Commons that no British ship was hit in the German air attack in the North Sea. Britain is stopping neutral shipping to search for contraband.
- Britain
- The war budget raises the standard rate of income tax to 7s in the pound for the rest of the financial year.
- The neutrals
- A United States Senate committee is still considering the neutrality bill. Twenty-one American republics are meeting at Panama.