Germany claimed to have captured Gdynia and to be making rapid
progress in the encircling of Warsaw.
Adolf
Hitler orders that the Polish capital is to be regarded
as a fortress and orders the use of artillery and bombers
against the city.
Polish reinforcements were hurried to Lwow, where Germany's
aim is to seize important oil fields and to cut communications
with Romania.
The French launched a new offensive on the extreme north of
the common frontier with Germany.
There was also a heavy artillery duel in the region of Saarbrücken.
To British merchant ships the Vancouver City and British Influence
were sunk.
The official Kremlin organ Pravda attributed what it termed
Poland's military debacle mainly to her brutal oppression
of her minorities, especially the Polish Ukrainians and the
White Russians.
In the House of Commons, Mr Chamberlain stated that no British
government would ever result to deliberate attacks on women
and children for the mere purpose of terrorism.
Lord Halifax announced in the House of Lords that the British
government had received a notification from the German government
that it would for the duration of the war observe the Geneva
protocol prohibiting the use of poison gas and bacteriological
methods of warfare.
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