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COPYRIGHT 1839 BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE. 1 VOLUME XCVIII. NO. 209 wmsm MM) NAZI ARMY ORDER BERLIN, Sept. 1 (Friday) (A.P.) Adolf Hitler today ordered the German army to meet force with force.

Hi order of the day to the army read: "The Polish state has rejected my efforts to establish neighborly relations, and instead has appealed to weapons. Germans in Poland are victims of a bloody terror, driven from house and home. A series of border violations unbearable for a great power show that the Poles no longer are willing to respect the German border. "To put an end to these insane incitations, nothing remains but for me to meet force with force from now on. The German army will conduct a fight for honor and the right to the life of the resurrected German people with firm determination.

I expect that every soldier, mindful of the great traditions of the eternal German military, will do his duty to the last. "Remember always that you are representatives of the National Socialist great Germany. Long live our people and our reich!" Orders Action! WAR BULLETINS War on Poland ERMANY TAKES DANZIG; BRITAIN, FRANCE TO MARCH WITH LONDON, Sept. 1 (A.P.) Reuters (British news agency) said Begun, Hitler it had learned from Polish sources in Paris that Warsaw -was bombed POLES REPORT ATTACK BY NAZI PLANES, TROOPS LOCKADES GDYNIA NAVY Tells Nation oday. Washington, D.

Sept. 1 (AP). Ambassador Bullitt tele BERLIN, Sept. 1 4:30 a. m.

phoned the state department this morning that he had official in POLISH ALLIES 1 Adolf Hitler disclosed to a hurriedly formation that the Polish cities of Warsaw and Cracow were being 2C 13 summoned session of the reichstag m. Baltic Sea Declared Danger Zone; All bombed. today that fighting with Poland had ft begun. Germany does not count on Italian PARIS, Sept, 1 (AP). The cabinet decreed general mobiliza Foreign Shipping Warned Away from Polish Port.

Hitler Speech Fails support, the Fuehrer said, while on the tion and a state of siege today and called parliament for tomorrow. other hand soviet Russia now is the Germany Strikes on Wide Front. reich's eternal friend. The mobilization of land, sea and air forces was ordered to take effect The state of siege was decreed throughout France to Shake Them. I will not appeal to foreign help in this atefui said.

"We will and Algeria. carry out' this" task ourselves." LONDON, Sept. 1 it was Hitler declared to the German na BY SIGRID SCHULTZ. Chicago Tribune Press Serrice-J Copyright: 1939: By The Chicago Tribune.1 BERLIN, Sept. 1 (Friday).

Adolf Hitler issued a proclamation BERLIN, Sept. 1 (AP). A radio announcement today from tion that he would achieve the re officially reiterated today that turn of Danzig and the Polish corri ureat and ranee were army headquarters said that the German, air force was in action over dor tPomorze and halt Polish at to the German people today announcing that Danzig had been determined to fulfill their obliga Polish territory. The announcement added that the army was counter tacks on Germans, or die-fighting. tions to Poland despite Adolf Hit incorporated in the German reich.

The announcement followed Shooting "for Hours. ler's reichstag speech. attacking all along the German-Polish frontier. It said that German land forces were determined to break any possible resistance while shortly after warlike action had been taken against Poland. A formal Our soldiers have been shot at declaration of war against Poland, however, had not been decreed LONDON, Sept.

1 (a3). Passed since 5:45 a. m. 11:45 p. rn.

Thurs the navy took over protection of the Baltic sea. through British censorship. The day, Chicago time and we have been up to 8 o'clock this morning. shooting back," the Fuehrer disclosed. All air trafic above Germany was forbidden except for govern text of an authoritative British state ment this morning said: Washington, D.

C. Sept. 1 (A.P.) President Roosevelt directed From now on we shall speak to ment military planes. Berlin heard the noise of Nazi war planes Poland in the same language in today that all naval ships and army commands be notified at once 'It is pointed out in official circles WARSAW, Sept. 1 Friday.

(IP The foreign cffiee announced early today that Germany's armed forces had struck at Poland both from the air and on land. The foreign office said that German planes had bombed Cracow and Ka-lowice, in southwestern Poland, and that air raids also had been directed st the port of Gdynia, and Czesto-trhowa, Tczew and Grazadz. Air raid alarms were sounded in Warsaw at 6:20 a. but they were kilenced shortly after 7 o'clock. On land, it was reported officially by radio, that the Germans had launched a full scale attack against towns in the Polish corridor.

Germans also were reported attacking in Upper Silesia. Report Artillery Shelling. It was officially announced that Germany began an air and land action against Westerplatte, a Polish munitions base in Danzig harbor, at which they speak to us." droning above. that if the proclamation to the Ger by radio of German-Polish hostilities. The White House issued the After Hitler's 36 minute speech, All German ships were warned not to enter the port of Danzig.

following announcement: the reichstag unanimously confirmed man people by Ilerr Hitler which has already been announced should mean All ships, German and foreign, in the Baltic were warned to keep the return of Danzig to Germany, "The President received word at 2:50 a. m. (Chicago time) ADOLF HITLER. Associated Press Photos. as it would seem to mean that Ger Its reunion to the reich had been by telephone from Ambassador Biddle at Warsaw and through Am out of the Polish port of Gdynia, which was blockaded by the German navy.

proclaimed earlier today by Albert many has declared war on Poland, it Forster, the Nazi leader and "chief bassador Bullitt in Paris that Germany has invaded Poland and that can be stated on the high authority of state in Danzig. that Great Britain and France are German Schools Ordered Closed. four Polish cities are being bombed. London Sends The Fuehrer declared he himself inflexibly determined to fulfill to th would be the "first soldier of the All schools in Germany were ordered closed until further uttermost their obligations to the notice because youths were needed for duties in civilian anti-air Polish government." reich," then he told the reichstag that Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Its Children ROME, Sept. 1 (6 a.

transmitted via Berlin). Italy seemed undetermined today. While the nation took resolute measures to be ready in case of war, there were indications she was overwhelmed by The British privy council, cabinet Goering would be his successor if he raid organizations. The German capital was ordered to prepare for air raids tonight. A blackout was ordered.

and parliament will meet this morn should meet death in war. If Goer ing to decide what Britain will do events and was not quite sure of her course. to Safe Area ing were removed, Hitler said The German government announced last night that the German- The cabinet and privy council were 5 a. m. The Polish legation in Budapest said the attack had been re to meet early this morning.

Parlia Party Leader Rudolf Hess would succeed him. If Hess should be removed. GLEIWITZ, Germany, Sept. 1 (Friday) (AP) (Direct). Glei pulsed.

ment was to convene at noon Chi Russian nonaggression pact had been ratified simultaneously yesterday in Berlin and Moscow. It was understood that a Russian military delegation, including members of the general staff, will the senate was then to elect a suc LONDON, Sept. 1 (fl fPassed cago time. Artillery shelling was reported on line between Grudziadz and Mlawa witz residents reported artillery fire was heard in the distance at 5:30 a. m.

today (11:30 p. m. Chicago time Thursday). Gleiwitz through British censorship. Lon Warsaw Reported Bombed.

cessor. Goering Urges All to Fight. on the southern border of East arrive in Berlin today to conclude a military alliance with the reich. Doctor Kordt, the German charge don sent away its children and turned its face to the grim prospect of war is only a few miles from the Polish Silesian border. Between Prussia.

Goering in ending the reichstag d'affaires, called at number 10 Down At dawn today martial music started over the radio, but only Artillery fire also was reported at Buethen and Gleiwitz, on the border, an almost unbroken line session said: today as more than a million young- ing street at 10:44 a. m. Chojnice, on the western border of sters, beginning at dawn, left the pack wagons, artillery, cavalry, motorized machine cuns, and a few Berliners realized the importance of the broadcasts when they turned on their radios. The Reuters news agency reported "German people stand behind the Fuehrer. We are determined to bring every sacrifice to the honor of the metropolis for safety in the English confirmation of a German offensive military lorries, and infantry was seen earlier this morning.

the Polish corridor. It was pointed out that all points bombed except Westerplatte have civilian population countryside. against Poland. The agency said that German people." Within the next few days more than 3,000,000 persons will have been which had not been evacuated. Turning to the reichstag members Ordered to "Meet Force with Force." BERLIN, Sept.

1 (Friday) (A. The German army was ordered to "meet force with force" and Poland was declared dangerous GLEIWITZ, Germany, Sept 1 (AP). An army ambulance car At 8:45 a. m. Warsaw experienced Warsaw, Krakow and other Polish towns had been bombed; that the Germans attacked without delivering any ultimatum, and that the German he said: sent from the various key cities.

To rying wounded soldiers on stretchers arrived at the emergency hos Sts second air raid alarm and anti "We expect you to do your duty aircraft fire was heard. The alarm day's withdrawal jammed surface trafic throughout London's business pital here today at 9:10 a. m. (3:10 a. Chicago time).

One man to the utmost as soldiers and civilians, offensive was developing in three di territory for foreigners by Adolf Hitler today at 5 :30 a. m. (11 :30 p. m. Thursday, Chicago time).

finished at 9:13. rections: One from East Prussia, an had on a first aid field bandage. It could not be ascertained where Continued on page 12, column Diplomatic dispatches received in section and touched the busy "city streets with sadness. other toward Silesia, and the third the ambulance came from. northward from Slovakia.

At the Liverpool street and London A Reuters dispatch from Warsaw said that towns in the Polish corridor THE WEATHER Budapest, from Warsaw, said the outskirts of the Polish capital also had been bombed. There were no figures fin casualties. Many were killed and injured when the Polish frontier town BERNE, Switzerland, Sept. 1 (AP). The Neue Zurcher Zei- bridge railroad stations, in the heart of London's poorer sections, children were in line, with their mothers near tung's correspondent in Berlin wrote today: 'x FKIEAX.

SEPTEMBER 1. 1939. being attacked were Dzialdowo and Chojnice, and that the fighting in Upper Silesia was in the region of of Tczew, not far from the Danzig bor by, from early morning. 3,000 Children in One Line. "It is declared here categorically that the Fuehrer's amounts to opening a state of war.

Military operations were Chicago daylight navinr time. Czestochowa. der, was bombed, Exchange Telegraph reported. This agency said the railroad Sunrise, sunset, 7:24. Mood rises jscnooi teacners imea tnem up Great Britain received the news 8:32 p.

m. Jupiter and Saturn are morn station and other buildings were de children of four and five, scared by begun at 6 a. m. along the entire German-Polish frontier." ing stars. Mars is a brilliant night lumi Germany's latest moves in the Euro stroyed, and the bombing continued nary.

the roar and bustle of the big station; older boys yanking the girls pean crisis with the deepest gravity. CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Generally lair for at least an hour.1 PARIS, Sept. 1 (Reuters). Information was received here this Friday and Saturday; moderate tempera Cite Speed of Blockade. hair; big girls with a toddler cling ture; genUe north to east winds Friday morning confirming previous reports of the German offensive against ing to each hand.

IIXZNOIS: Generally fair Friday and Satur. Government offices, after a night mere were j.uuu cnuaren one marked by intense activity, were Poland. It was reported the German offensive is developing in three directions from East Prussia towards Silesia and northwards from day; not much change in temperature. TEMPERATURES IN CHICAGO. For 24 hours ended 2 a.

m. Sept. 1: line at London bridge, which gave its empty of officials authorized to speak when news of Hitler's instructions to name to a children's game. The Fuehrer proclaimed that his action was because of alleged Polish violations of the German frontier. Attacks were reported yesterday at Gleiwetz, Pitschen, Hochlinden, and Alte Eiche.

The German official news agency, D.N.B., announced today that Albert Forster, Nazi chief of state in Danzig, had proclaimed the reunion of the free ccity with the reich. Forster notified Hitler of his action by telegram. The Fuehrer accepted immediately. German Warships to Patrol Zone. The radio announced that a warning to foreigners in Poland and to foreign vessels against approaching Gdynia or.

Danzig was necessitated by "military measures." The government announcement said German warships would meet foreign vessels steaming into the Gdynia-Danzig danger zone and instruct them where to go. The army was massed pa Polish frontiers from the Baltic sea to the High Tatra mountains (in Slovakia) and in East Prussia. Warns Neutral Planes. Germany announced that all neutral planes flying over the Polish corridor were in a dangerous zone. In this zone neutral airplanes eSrpose- themselves to the danger of being shot down." the union of Danzig with the reich, Forster's 1 Continued on pijti 4.

column S.J Last night a government spokesman had said that the conditions of Fuehrer Hitler's proposals for settlement of the Polish-German dispute, such as immediate return of Danzig to Germany, were unacceptable to Poland. The spokesman emphasized that Poland was determined to keep Pomorze the Polish corridor and her rights in the Free City of Danzig. Slovakia. the army was received. This, however.

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Sept. 1 (AP). President Roosevelt today duffel bag containing blankets and clothes. From the tops of some bags 9 a.m... 691 asked all potential participants in a European war to pledge them Continued on page 2, column 3.

'Highest. tliOwest. Unofficial 9 p.m.-2 a.m Of Hitler's proposal for a ple For 24 hours ended 7:30 p. m. Aug.

31s dolls peered out. One boy dropped his bag and a box of lead soldiers Mean temperature, 71; normal, 69; August biscite in Pomorze, one reaction here was Germany can begin with Czecho-Slovakia if she is interested in excess, 33 excess since Jan. 1, 612 deg. Total avtrag net paid circulation JULY. 193 9 spilled out onto the platform.

Each Given Bag Candy. Precipitation, none; August deficiency, 1.74 inches. Total since Jan. 1, 23.38 in. Ex a plebiscite." cess since Jan.

1, .60 in. These children were poor. But even the poorest had a bag of candy selves against; bombarding civilian populations or unfortified cities from the air. The appeal was sent at 4:30 a. m.

(Chicago time) to the governments of Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and Poland. Mr. Roosevelt requested an immediate reply. BUCHAREST, Rumania, Sept. 1 (AF)-King Carol today called a crown council fo proclaim neutrality.

It was expected the government would order general mobnization to protect the frontiers. DAILY Belatire humidity at 7:30 a. 91; 1:30 Germany last March established a protectorate over the Czech inhabited 900 000 p. 70; 7:30 p. m.

or cakes, a departing gift from his lands of Bohemia and Moravia. Highest wind velocity. 13 miles an hour, parents. excess at It was reported that ten Germans One child of five had a tiny bucket from the northeast at 8:40 p. m.

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