POLISH ARMY SURRENDER NEAR LUCK

October 3, 1939

The Polish Army near Luck in the Volhynia region has surrendered to the Germans. German casualties are 10,000 dead and 30,000 wounded but  Polish casualties are much higher. Polish units were overwhelmed by increased German fire. German tanks were used during the battle though most of the emphasis lay on traditional-style infantry warfare. The Germans have taken over 700,000 Polish soldiers as prisoner while the Soviets took 200,000. More than 10,000 Poles of the city were arrested by the NKVD and deported to Siberia. Many Poles managed to escape West although their numbers cannot be confirmed. The Red Army has begun dismantling the factories including the radio station for shipment back to the Soviet Union.

 JESZCZE POLSKA NIE ZGINELA
Charles Michel Guilbert d'Anelle, Expiring Soldier of Liberty 1849
  The painting shows a dying freedom fighter scrawling Poland is not yet lost in his blood.

In Britain today Prime Minister Chamberlain adamantly rejected Hitler's proposal for a peace plan. On the Western Front, the British 1st Corps of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) has taken over responsibility to secure the border between France and Belgium. French forces have completely withdrawn from their positions at Warndt Forest and Saarbrucken Salient on the French border with Germany.

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Polish Command Orders General Retreat

September 10, 1939

In what was referred to as Bloody Sunday more than 70 German bombers took to the skies over Warsaw and pounded the city in over 17 bombing raids. A news bulletin received earlier announcing the fall of Warsaw has been confirmed as a hoax  invented by German forces. They were broadcasting a false bulletin on the same radio wavelength as Radio Warsaw.  Meanwhile the battle at Bzura continues at Malachowicze where the Polish 17th Infantry Division is inflicting heavy strikes against the German 17th Infantry Division.

Citizens of Warsaw huddled together as Luftwaffe bombs city

 
Polish Commander-in-Chief Marshal Smigly-Rydz made urgent appeals to France for military reinforcements but was refused.  According to General Gamelin, the French Chief of the General Staff, more than half of the active French divisions are engaged in battle with the enemy on the northeast front and France can do no more.

Warsaw is being Bombed (white lines are traces of AA fire)

The first major contingent under the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) landed today in France, under the command of Field Marshal Lord Gort.  Over 160,000 men, 24,000 vehicles and 140,000 tons of supplies are expected to arrive over the next couple of weeks.

In the North Sea, the British submarine Triton mistakenly torpedoes the British submarine Oxley.

The government of Canada has declared war on Germany. Canada is the last of the British Dominions to declare war. However, their hesitation permitted the delivery from the U.S. of large amounts of war goods which are now banned under American neutrality laws.

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