The German high command announced that in order to crush civilian
resistance open towns and villages in Poland will henceforth
be bombed and shelled
Lord Halifax stated in the House of Lords that if such action
were taken by the Germans, the British government would hold
themselves free to take such action as they might deem appropriate.
According to statements issued by the Polish Embassy in London,
and by the American ambassador in Poland, the Luftwaffe had
at some time been bombing civilians in Poland.
German advance on Warsaw still held up but in circling movements
were made round the Polish positions.
Attacks on Modlin and Lwow had been repulsed, but East of
Warsaw Polish forces had withdrawn under heavy pressure.
Paris reported that French troops had improved. The whole
of the positions taken in the course of the last few days.
French war cabinet was formed, with M Daladier as prime minister,
Foreign Minister and Warminster.
Their British Prime Minister Mr Chamberlain gave Parliament
a second survey of the progress of the war.
It was reported from Brussels that Adolf
Hitler had issued an appeal to all doctors, engineers
and other technical experts, whatever their race, who had
fled from Germany, to return with the promise that fortunes
confiscated from such refugees would be restored.
Go To: 14th
September
Articles:
The Second Great War.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
The War Illustrated.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
2194 Days Of War.
ISBN-10: 086136614X
For a complete list of
sources
