Evening star., 1939-09-03
GermansAgain
Bomb Warsaw,
Hit Apartment
21Deod, 30 Injured
As Blast Rips Side
From Building
By ELMER PETERSON,

Associated Press Foreisn Correspondent
WARSAW, Sept. 2.-Twenty-one
dead and over 30 wounded were
counted tonight after a German
bomb had struck an apartment
house in a Warsaw workingmen' S
quarter.
The bombs tore off the side OF
the apartment house as II 1t had
been made of paper. Rescue work
ers still were clearing away the
resultant pile of debris in a search
for further casualties when I in
spected it.
One of the bombs had dug
crater fully 20 feet in diameter, and
the open ground was piled high
with furniture and belongings.
Craters in 1OO-Yard Circle.
In the center of large park In
the southern section OF warsaw,
saw where bomb had struck
simple wooden dwelling, killing two
persons and wounding one. In an
open field near the Vistula River,
where 10 light bombs apparently
had been released simultaneously,
they had dug craters in lOO-yard
circle.
With me on this tour of inspec-
ton of damage done by the German
air bombings were c. Burke Ell
brick. secretary of the American
Embassy; Clifford Norton, Charge
d'Affaires of the British Embassy,
and officials of the Polish foreign
office.
During the tour the party twice
was forced to take refuge because
of afraid alarms, five of which In
all sounded through the city today.
Once we took cover in a shallow
dugout filled with workingmen, their
wives and their crying children.
Worst Scene in Workers Quarter.
The worst scene of damage was at
Kolo, the workingmen's quarter,
where. in addition to wrecking one
apartment building, the bombs had
smashed windows in several others.
An old man gulped back tears as
he said his wife and two children
were dead. A woman, still staring
blankly into space, said:
My husband is gone"
An official news service commu-
nique stated that yesterday German
raiders dropped 100 bombs on War;
saw and its vicinity, killing 10 and
wounding 25 in Warsaw proper, with
the number Of casualties in the sub
urbs still undetermined.
Severe Fighting Reported.
Although official information was
lacking, it was reported that severe
fighting between Polish and German
land forces was proceeding in Sile-
sia, where the Germans are attempt
ing to pinch off Katowice by attacks
from two directions.
A radio announcement at pm.
Go am, E. S. t., claimed that
Polish troops still were holding the
Westerplatte munitions base in the
harbor of Danzig A Berlin COM
munique last night had reported
Westerplatte in German hands.
A large-scale evacuation of wom-
en- and children was under way
from the center of Warsaw TO the
suburbs and nearby villages after air
raid sirens sent residents scurrying
to cover five times today.
The fifth alarm lasted an hour,
with sporadic outbursts of anti-air-
craft fire. Americans reported they
saw nine planes, presumably Ger
man, high over the center of the
city. A Polish-American reporter
saw one German plane shot down
in dog fight with two Polish pur-
suit ships near Otwock, 10 miles
from Warsaw.
Anti-aircraft guns were heard in
action on the city's outskirts after
the fifth alarm sounded at 2:45 pm.
<o:45 am. E. S. TD and the attackers
apparently were driven off.
The Polish Embassy in Lon
don reported Warsaw was bombed
SIX times during the day. A
Havas, French news agency, dis
patch reaching Paris said one
raid started at sos pm. 11:05
am, E. S. TD and lasted for Is
minutes.
"a German communique re-
ported big gains and said Polish
troops in the northern part of the
Polish Corridor had been cut off,
The Polish Telegraph news agency
said 130 persons, mostly women and
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