Evening star., 1939-09-18
Sub Sinks British Plane Carrier;
Soviets Capture Border Towns;
Reich Turning Air Force to West
Reds Advance
Swiftly; Are 81
Miles From Nuzis
By LLOYD LEHRBAS,

By LLOYD LEHkbAS,
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
CERNAUTI, Rumania, Sept. l8.-
1t was reported here today that
the Russian army, striking swiftly
since it's entry into Poland yes
terday, now held the Polish-Ru-
manian border towns of zaleszczyki
and Sniatyn and was closing IN
on Kuty. Zaleszczyki and Kuty are
about 40 miles apart; Snlatyn is
about midway between them on
line running southwest.
Germans in their eastward drive
still were reported more than SO
kilometers (about 81 niles from
Kuty. Foreign circles considered it
likely the Soviet divisions would
seek to sweep the entire length OF
the Polish -Rumanian frontier and
meet the Germans on the Polish
Hungarian border.
Battered remnants Of the Polish
army fled headlong across the Ru-
manian frontier, barely escaping the
advancing Russian troops. President
Ignace Moscicki, Foreign Minister
Josef Beck, other members Of the
government and the Polish general
staff had reached here earlier. Mos
cicki and Beck were in virtual GUS
tody of Rumanian authorities who
denied them permission to confer
with other diplomats here. 1t was
believed the Polish officials would
leave shortly for Paris or London.
Members of the Polish general
staff also arrived and, together with
Moscicki, Beck and other members
Of the government, planned to leave
for Bucharest later in the day.
Army Tanks, Planes Surrender.
Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz,
Polish Army commander, although
expected here, had not arrived.
The United States Ambassador to
Poland, Anthony j. Drexel Biddle,
jr., who came here last week, went
to Bucharest last night.
There was no immediate word here
of two Americans, William Morton
of the consular service and Rich
ard Mowrer of the Chicago Daily
News, last reported in zaleszczyki.
Ambassador Biddle will pro-
ceed to France, Secretary of State
Hull said at his press conference
today. There he will await or
ders, but 1t Is not yet decided
whether an American Embassy to
Poland will be set up in Paris.
(The State Department, Secre-
tary Hull said, is at present cut
of from communications with
Warsaw, the beleagured Polish
capital, and it has no immediate
knowledge Of the situation of our
consuls assigned to Poland. How
ever, the Secretary said the con-
suls were safe in Warsaw when
he last heard from them)
Tanks. planes and artillery as well
as hundreds of Polish soldiers were
said to have surrendered to the Red
army. More than $50 planes had
landed in Rumania, many of the
crewmen wounded. Privates and
non commissioned officers were
taken to camp, the officers to a
concentration center near Bucharest
Two planes of undetermined ma
tionality were reported to have
dropped incendiary bombs on Girls
ceatec, Rumanian border town
which already was suffering from a
similar raid of last night when a
sugar refinery was set fire. Eight
peasant homes were destroyed and
six persons were killed in the Sec
ond attack, advices reaching here
said.
Four were killed by bombs at an
other Rumanian border toWn-Kot-
ringeni-Rumanian dispatches re-
ported.
Government May Go to London.
Moscicki and Beck were reported
planning to take their government
to London.
Col. Beck was expected to notify
heads of diplomatic missions to his
GlldU WOl n woo SAANSNA
Plans after that-were not imme-
diately disclosed. The Polish Off
cials have been informed they mus
engage in no political activity while
in the country and arrange to leave
as soon as possible.
Archives of the Polish government
were brought into Rumania yester'
day.
Protests Nazi Bombing.
Meanwhile, through Franklin Mot
Gunther, American Minister to Ru'
mania, President Moscicki sent
telegram to President Roosevelt pro.
testing that German planes hac
"bombarded methodically and with
generalization" open towns in Poland
Lotvio Confiscotes