Evening star., 1939-09-20
Occupation Of Lwow
By Red Forces Is
Announced
Communique Tells Of
Capture Of Wi|no
In Two-Hour Bottle
BY the Associated Press.

In Two-Hour Bottle
By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. Sept. 20.-Soviet Russia
was reported authoritatively today
to have called up more army reserv-
lists. although the number was not
disclosed.
Unofficial sources intimated they
were sent to some sector of the west
ern frontier, beyond which Red
Army forces were officially an
nounced as having occupied the in
dustrial city of Lwow, in the South
east Polish Ukraine.
At the same time Soviet and Ger
man officers started conferences
arising from their joint military
occupation of Poland.
. The same war communique which
told of entry of Soviet Russian
troops into LWow also said Russians
had captured Wilno (Vilna) in
Northeast Poland. near the Lithua-
MAN border, after a "two-hour
battle
Cooperation Ordered.
Four German officers arrived yes
terday to assist the German military
attache in Moscow, 1t. Gen. Ernest
Koestring, in discussions with the
Russians. 1t was rumored the So
Wet military attache in Berlin, who
also holds a generals rank, came
here for the talks.
Lithuanians, who consider Wilno
their ancient capital, have shown
an interest in the fate of the city
TaSs, Russian official news agency,
reported in dispatch from KaunaS
that Lithuanian authorities had in
structed their army to "co-operate
fully" with Soviet troops in deter
mining boundary lines between Po-
land and Lithuania. Tass also said
two leaders of the Eatonian Navy
had resigned their commands.
Soviet newspapers yesterday criti-
-cized Estonian officials severely for
allegedly permitting a Polish sub
marine to escape interment at Tai
linn.
1t was learned Rumania had
switched Ambassadors in Moscow, in
what was interpreted unoffcially as
meaning Rumania seeks to improve
her relations with the Soviet.
Nicolas Dianu, the retiring AM
bassador, paid farewell call at the
foreign office. His successor, Da-
vidscu, was expected to arrive
shortly.
Other Cities Captured.
The general staff announced cap
ture altogether of II more cities and
towns. Besides Volynski, Pruzhany
Pruzana) and Kobrin (KobTynD, ),
also 140 miles into Poland, we're re-
ported taken.
Most of the places reported cap
tured roughly were on a line run
ming north and south through Wilno
and LWow. 1t had been understood
the Russian invasion would be halt
ed somewhere along this line, SO
there was the possibility the drive
might be about ended.
The Soviet troops either have met
or have stopped a stones throw
from the German forces at several
points along the 5O0-mile- long line
of march.
The government organ Izvestia
said editorially today commenting
on the Russian occupation of Po-
land, that our liberated brothers
know and see that the Red Army
is bringing them on it's banners
peace and new, free. happy life.
Polish magnates transformed the
Western Ukraine and Western White
Russia into a suppressed rolony,
robbed with impunity by Polish land
lords and merchants the paper said.
Izvestia said inhabitants of the oc-
. cupied area greeted the Soviet
armies as liberators and that 'it is
difficult to find words to describe
the feelings of Western Ukrainians
and Western White Russians for
whom came the bright hour of lib
Grafton from the yoke of the Polish
gentry
Mopup Near End.
AS the German-Russian campaign
OF mopping up in Poland seemed to
be nearing an end, the possibility
that Soviet troops might march into
little Estonia was discussed in Mos
cows diplomatic circles.
News that the Soviet Baltic fleet
was sent into action to take meas
ures' following the escape of
Polish submarine interned at the
Estonian port of Tallinn was re-
garded here as significant. Soviet
Russia's present sea base on the
west is Leningrad on the Gluf of
Finland and Russia is known to
want a Baltic base
Diplomats said that should Russia
decide to occupy part of Estonia this
might give her complete control of
the Gulf of Finland. Estonia now
has a number of fortified islands N
the gulf as we'll as shore batteries
controlling certain large sectors.
Estonian circles in Moscow insist
ed, however, there was not single
conflict in the relations of their gov
ernment with the Soviet Union.
They emphasized that their guards
had tried to prevent the escape Of
the submarine and denied there was
any connivance.
Sources close to the German EN-
bassy predicted that the Reich, with
the Polish campaign nearly over,
might make a fresh approach to
France and Britain for peace. These
quarters said Germany now was
transferring numerous airplanes and
troops from the Polish to the west
ern front.
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