Evening star., 1939-09-23
Warsaw, Station, Still
Hurting Defiance,
Blocked by Nazis
British Blockade
Working, Officer Was
Telling People
BY ELMER w. PETERSON,
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent


lish Frontier) Sept. % Delayed) -
The Warsaw radio, broadcasting de-
fiance of German troops which, for
two weeks, have been battering at
the Polish capital, was drowned out
suddenly tonight by interference
from stronger Nazi station.
For Is minutes, German music
silenced the voice of a Polish staff
officer who had been telling of
Warsaw's determination to hold out.
Then the interfering station broad
cast speech denouncing France
and Britain. 1t was delivered first
In Polish and repeated in German.
Before the Warsaw radio was
jammed from the air, a broadcast
by Mayor Stefan Starzinski report
ed that German warplanes had
''drenched" the capital with propa-
ganda pamphlets. The Mayor said
the pamphlets were written in bad
Polish, which is evidence no Pole
will help the Germans write such
pamphlets"
Said Blockade Was Working.
The interference started as Col.
Vaclav Lipinski, staff officer of the
Warsaw defense, declared Ger
many cannot hold out indefinitely.
The British blockade is working"
Before his voice was blotted out,
Col. Lipinski declared Warsaw and
Modlin were being supported by
strong Polish troops" which had
fought their way through encircling
German armies.
Il tell you for certain" Col. Lip
insH added, "our troops still are
fighting at Zamosc, Rawa -Ruska
and Lwow. The Germans to sur
vive must execute a lightning war.
For this reason Warsaw must hold
out"
Rawa-Ruska IS approximately 40
miles northwest of Lwow, capital OF
the Polish Ukraine, which Soviet
Russian troops said they had occu-
pied several days ago and which
q Berlin communique claimed for
German mountain troops today.
zamosc is aboue the same distance
northwest of Rawa-Ruska.
Officials Flight Admitted.
For the first time the Warsaw
radio acknowledged the Polish gov
+ ernment and the army general staff
had left the country.
This is true, but necessary"
Mayor Starzinski declared, but they
are in constant touch with us, and
we are reporting to them"
Julius Lukacziewicz, Polish Am
bassador to France, last night
broadcast a message from Paris
to Warsaw's mayor declaring
from the bottom of my heart I
give homage to our heroic capi-
tai in the name of 100000 Poles
living in France"
owe are forming Polish VOL
unteer army from the entire
world to fight beside the French
and British" the Ambassador
said. Each day and each hour
of your desperate battle strikes
the worlds conscience. The sac
rif1ce of your blood indicates the
road to victory.D
The Capitals radio speakers de-
family challenged Germany's war
planes, which they said had again
dumped high explosives on the city
during the day.
Poland still exists, Poland still
fights" the announcers said. "We
fight on in the firm belief that the
invaders must and will be punished
for his crimes"
They described with pride the
work of the volunteer corps" now
fighting side by side with the regu-
lar troops.
Private Homes Hospitals.
Each day, the broadcast declared.
sees Warsaws population contribut-
ing to an organized method of ham
ding food supplies and transporta-
tion. Private homes as well as
public buildings have become hos
pitfalls, it was said, and pharmacies
have been stripped of medical
supplies.
The unequal battle for the air
waves was continued each time the
Warsaw radio began broadcasting
news. There was no interference
from the German station when the
Warsaw broadcast was confined to
musical programs.
Despite interference with the
Warsaw station, the assurance that
the capital still was holding out
cheered thousands of Polish refu-
gees flocking over the Hungarian
border in search of safety.
Vehicles Heavily Laden.
Authorities here estimated that
1000 Polish motor vehicles have
crossed the border. Most of these
were heavily laden with passengers
many of them children-clinging
to the running boards.
Hungarian officials struggled to
cope with the seemingly endless flow
OF homeless and hungry refugees.
Some of those who crossed the bor-
der several days ago have gone as
far south as Budapest.
Campf1res twinkled beside the
highways tonight as the wanderers
halted to cook frugal meals. Women
and children, estimated to total at
least $4,000, were bedded indoors by
Hungarian authorities wherever pos
sible.
In wayside fields stold Ruth
enisn peasants looked on as dis
armed Polish soldiers billeted them
selves In the open. Red Cross nurses
ministered to the weary troops and
here and there in the glare of auto
mobile headlights doctors worked
over wounded men.