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The day in dispatches
Filed through the day, as it happened
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The war is widening as the fighting in Poland ends
LONDON German troops entered Warsaw yesterday morning, the German High Command says, and the Polish garrison on the Hel peninsula surrendered on the same day. Berlin can now tell its own people and the neutral capitals that the Polish campaign is over, and it will use that claim to press London and Paris to make peace. Poland's President and its new Government under General Władysław Sikorski are now in France.
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London says RAF aircraft have flown over Berlin and Potsdam
LONDON Royal Air Force aircraft made reconnaissance flights over Berlin and Potsdam on the night of 1 October, the Air Ministry announced today.
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London says an unidentified raider has sunk the steamer Clement
LONDON The British steamer Clement, of 5,051 tons, has been sunk in the South Atlantic by an armed raider, the Ministry of Information in London announced today.
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Pittman opens the Senate debate and says the arms embargo favors Germany
WASHINGTON Senator Key Pittman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, opened the Senate's debate on the neutrality bill today by calling the present arms embargo "a discrimination in favor of Germany."
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Berlin says the Hel garrison has surrendered unconditionally
BERLIN The Polish garrison on the fortified Hel peninsula surrendered unconditionally yesterday, the German High Command said today, calling Hel the last strongpoint of Polish resistance.
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Berlin says German troops have entered Warsaw
BERLIN The first German troops entered Warsaw yesterday morning "without incident", the German High Command said in its report today.
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Latvia's Foreign Minister flies to Moscow for talks, Riga radio says
RIGA Vilhelms Munters, the Latvian Foreign Minister, is flying to Moscow today for talks with the Soviet Government, Riga radio announced last night.
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London says three RAF aircraft were shot down over the Saar
LONDON Three British aircraft were shot down and a fourth made a forced landing after five RAF aircraft met about 15 German fighters over the Saar on Saturday, the Air Ministry in London says.
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Britain makes men aged 20 and 21 liable for military service
LONDON Men in Britain aged 20 and 21 are now liable to be called up for military service under a royal proclamation issued on Sunday.
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Where things stood at the start of the day
- Britain
- Churchill says Britain is preparing for a war of at least three years. He says Russia's national interest is the key to its next move.
- Warsaw and Modlin
- Berlin says the handover of Warsaw and Modlin is going to plan.
- At sea
- Berlin says it will treat British merchant ships as warships. The Admiralty has told merchant ships to be ready for a change in German submarine policy.
- Italy
- Hitler has received Italy's Foreign Minister, Count Ciano, in Berlin. Ribbentrop met him at the station.
- Poland
- Poland's ambassador in London says Poland will never recognise the German-Soviet agreement.
- Home front
- Britain held a national day of prayer on Sunday.