Evening star., 1939-09-23
Germans Break Link
Between Warsaw
And Fortress
Grip on Both Tiehtens;
Berlin Announces
lwow's Surrender
nv the Associated Press

lwow's Surrender
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Sept. 23-The supreme
army command announced today
the cutting off Of Warsaw from
Modlin, apparently bringing the fall
of both Polish strongholds a step
nearer.
Modlin is fortress approximately
10 miles northwest of the be-
leaguered Polish capital.
The daily communique also an
nounced the surrender yesterday
of LwoW, more than 200 miles south
east of Warsaw. German troops in
turn yielded the city to advancing
Soviet Russians, Nazis asserting
that there, as elsewhere, German
Soviet cooperation seemed perfect.
Polish General Held Taken.
In mopping up remnants of the
Polish Army in the Bzura River
sector west of Warsaw, German
forces reported the capture of ore
especially prominent Pole Gen.
BortnoWski, described as supreme
commander of Polish Corridor Army.
His entire staff, the communique
said, also was taken.
Several thousand Poles were cap
tured in the Warsaw-Modlin sector.
The only developments reported
on the western front were minor
artillery activity, capture of a
French plane and crew which had
made a forced landing and loss of
one German plane.
Orders for more rigid food ration
Ing at moment of triumph in Po-
land were regarded by many Ger
mans today as sign of preparation
for long war.
The new DEGREES caused wide
spread disappointment among those
who had hoped for a quick end to
the war and set up new food prob
lens for hausfraus The nation
heard assurances, however, foreign
sources of food and other materials
remained open.
The new food rationing, similar to
that of World War days, will become
effective next Monday. Bread cards
will make their appearance then,
and only children, pregnant and
nursing mothers and the sick will be
allowed to drink unskimmed milk.
Soviet Arms Pact Possible.
With Germany and Soviet Russia
In agreement on a line of demarca-
ton between their forces in Poland,
rumors spread that the close CO.
operation might lead to German
Russian military alliance. No one in
q responsible position, however, ven-
tured comment on such a possi-
bility.
The agreement, announced yes
terday, gave Russia approximately
three-fifths of Poland as her zone
of occupation and left two-fifths,
including Warsaw, for NaZi soldiers.
1t was pointed out, however, the line
was not necessarily permanent, and
that future boundaries still were the
subject of diplomatic negotiations in
Moscow.
(Some quarters in Moscow said
the line Of demarcation seemed to
dispose of the idea that Ger
many and Russia might set up
buffer state between them.)
Adolf Hitler, who has been in the
held with his army since the out
break OF hostilities, stood yesterday
on heights within sight Of Poland's
still-resisting capital and was shown
German preparations for its cap
ture.
A communique today told of the
capture Thursday of the commander
OF the Polish army in Pomorza (the
Polish CORRIDOR, his entire staff and
OF 100000 prisoners and "unmeas-
urable" arms in the Galicia cam
paign.
Some Items Unrestricted.
until now there was no restriction
on bread consumption. There still
IS none on potatoes. fruits, fish and
fresh vegetables, which may be pur-
chased without cards.
The bread rations, an announce
ment said. correspond to "peacetime
average consumption" and will be
imposed to maintain our great ma
tional bread and grain reserves and
to guarantee us daily bread, if we
should happen to experience smaller
harvests."
The government explained the
milk restriction as an effort to con-
serve butter fats to insure supply
for soldiers and workers in heavy
industries. They will be issued spe-
cial cards allowing them larger ra-
tions.
IL Pounds of Meat a Week,
Meat rations of approximately IL
pounds a person each week-the
weight of one good-sized steak
nave become a cause of special
anxiety among many German house.
wives
Even with the introduction of two
meatless days-Monday and Friday
they have been compelled to do a
lot of figuring on how to divide the
meat allotment evenly over the re-
manning five days.
Seafood is almost impossible to get
because of Great Britain's domina-
ton of the North Sea. Coal, on the
other hand, has been eliminated
from the rationing system. It was
said Germany possesses sufficient
coal now that Polish coal mines have
come within the German economic
system.
That Germany can count on Ru-
mania for supplies and much-needed
raw materials was emphasized by
Jon Gigurtu, Rumanian industrialist
and former minister of economics,
who now Is in Germany.
In a statement to the German
press, Gigurtu expressed confidence
German-Rumanian trade relations
would not be disturbed by the war
and were bound to increase.