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The day in dispatches
Filed through the day, as it happened
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London and Paris are right to refuse a peace built on partition
LONDON Germany and the Soviet Union have drawn a frontier through Poland, and in the same set of documents they ask Britain and France to stop fighting. This paper believes London and Paris are right to refuse.
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Moscow documents fix a frontier and call for peace in the west
LONDON Germany and the Soviet Union published three documents today: a treaty fixing a frontier between them in Poland, a joint declaration on the war with Britain and France, and an exchange of letters on trade.
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Panama conference drafts a general declaration of neutrality
PANAMA CITY A subcommittee of the conference of American republics in Panama is drafting a general declaration of neutrality, the Associated Press reports.
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Senate debate on the neutrality bill will open on Monday
WASHINGTON The Senate will begin debating the administration's neutrality bill on Monday, the Associated Press reports from Washington.
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London and Paris say they will fight on despite the Moscow declaration
LONDON British official sources indicate that the German-Soviet declaration calling for an end to the war will not change Britain's intention to continue fighting.
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Romania and Germany renew their trade agreement, United Press reports
BUCHAREST Romania and Germany have completed trade negotiations and renewed their existing commercial agreement, United Press reports from Bucharest.
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Estonia's pact gives Moscow naval and air bases on the Baltic
STOCKHOLM The pact Estonia signed in Moscow gives the Soviet Union naval bases on Estonian soil for ten years, according to the text published by Tass, the Soviet news agency.
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Norway's minister describes Warsaw under heavy bombardment
COPENHAGEN Niels Ditleff, Norway's minister to Poland, has described the bombardment of Warsaw as overwhelming, according to a report from Copenhagen.
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Norwegian freighter Jern is sunk and her crew saved, AP reports
OSLO The Norwegian freighter Jern, carrying wood pulp, was sunk yesterday afternoon off Kristiansand on Norway's southern coast after a submarine stopped her, the Associated Press reports from Oslo.
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Berlin says German troops will probably enter Warsaw on 2 October
BERLIN The disarmed Polish garrison of Warsaw is to march out of the city over two or three days, and German troops will probably enter the capital on 2 October, the German High Command says.
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Berlin says Modlin has surrendered unconditionally
BERLIN The fortress of Modlin, north-west of Warsaw, has surrendered unconditionally, the German High Command says.
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Moscow and Berlin agree to expand trade in raw materials
MOSCOW Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet foreign commissar, and Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German foreign minister, have exchanged letters agreeing to develop trade between their countries, the German news agency DNB reports.
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Berlin and Moscow say Britain and France should end the war
MOSCOW The German and Soviet governments published a joint declaration with their Moscow treaty, released by DNB. It says ending the war between Germany and Britain and France would serve all peoples, and that both governments will work for it. If they fail, it says, Britain and France will be responsible for the war continuing, and Germany and the Soviet Union will consult on the necessary measures.
The Governments of the German Reich and the U.S.S.R.
Official text
A joint statement by two governments at war with Poland, published by their state agencies.
Declaration of the Government of the German Reich and the Government of the U.S.S.R. of September 28, 1939
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Berlin and Moscow publish a new frontier through Poland
BERLIN Germany and the Soviet Union have published a treaty fixing a frontier between them through what they call the former Polish state, the German news agency DNB reported early this morning.
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France reports a calm night and patrols west of Saarbrücken
PARIS The night was calm along the Western Front, with French advance guards active, particularly west of Saarbrücken, the French command said in its communiqué this morning.
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Moscow and Estonia sign a ten-year mutual assistance pact
MOSCOW The Soviet Union and Estonia have signed a pact of mutual assistance in Moscow that will run for ten years, according to Tass, the Soviet news agency.
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Britain compiles its National Register tonight
LONDON The National Register, a record of every civilian living in Britain, is being compiled tonight under arrangements the government announced in advance.
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Where things stood at the start of the day
- Warsaw
- Warsaw's command says it is negotiating the conditional capitulation of the city and Modlin. Berlin says the capitulation is unconditional, and neither side has published terms.
- Modlin
- Berlin says Modlin's commander offered on 28 September to surrender. No acceptance had been announced at the close of the day.
- Moscow
- Ribbentrop held further talks with Stalin and Molotov on 28 September. No agreement had been announced at the close of the day.
- The demarcation line
- German and Soviet forces are moving to the line along the Pissa, the Narew, the Vistula and the San. Berlin says its main body has crossed it as planned.
- The Western Front
- France reports a calm night and a failed German attack west of Saarbrücken. There has been no general engagement.
- At sea
- The Swedish freighter Nyland has been sunk by a submarine and her crew saved. London denies Berlin's claim that a bomb hit a British cruiser.
- The neutrals
- A United States Senate committee has voted 16 to 7 to send the neutrality bill to the full Senate. Delegates from 21 American republics are meeting at Panama.