September 27,1939; WARSAW FALLS

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1939:

Berlin Announcement

Comes At End of 20th
Day of Siege
WARSAW RADIO TELLS
OF CITY'S DESTRUCTION
(Associated Press)
BKRLIN, Sept. 27—The German high command tonight claimed that "Warsaw has capitulated unconditionally" and added that the "handing over
of the city probably will occur Sept. 29."

RADIO SAYS CITY

MOLDING OUT

The announcement tame several hours after an earlier communique claiming that Warsaw's defenders had offered this morning to surrender and that General Johannes Von Blaskowltz had been commissioned to arrange details of the capitulation.

The German announcement came at the end of the 20^th  day of Warsaw's siege. (As late as 2:45 p.m.—6:15 a.m. M.S.T.—the Warsaw radio was heard in Budapest, the announcer declaring the city still was holding out and would resist to the last.)

PORTIONS OF GERMAN
WESTWALL WIPED OUT
BY FRENCH ARTILLERY

Entire Western Front Blaze:
With Heavy Cannonading

By JOHN MARTIN

(Associated Press Staff Wrifer.)
PARIS, Sept. 27—(AP)_French artillery was reported today to have wiped out portions of the German Westwall between Merzlg and Saarbruecken as the entire western front blazed with heavy cannonading. Dispatches said the Germans had answered the bombardment with an intense counterfire on French advance positions
in the Saar and Piilatina( e areas to protect German troops working feverishly to rebuild shattered blockhouses.

A communique issued this morning by the general staff made no reference to this reported success, and said the night had been quiet.

The communique made mention, however, of "enemy artillery flre on ur rear lines In the region of Wisembourg.

An expanding Russia, having swallowed a good share of Poland,

is expected, by European observers, to reach next for part of Rumania

and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and, possibly, Finland.

An invasion of Rumania—the goal being that nation's rich

oil fields, would, it is believed, be made in consert with a German force.

OPINION IS DIVIDED IN

GERMANY ON POLAND;
WATCH MOSCOW VISIT

Hitler Confers With Chiefs

Belief Held Poland's
Future Decided
By JOSEPH SCHILDBACII
(Associated Press Staff Writer.)
BERLIN, Sept. 27.—(AP)—The question of whether Poland should survive as an independent state or disappear from the European map occupied diplomatic quarters today as Germany's foreign minister, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, departed for Moscow.

Accompanied by the Soviet Russian ambassador to Germany, Alexander SchkvarzefT, and a group of foreign office experts, Von Ribbentrop took off from Templehof airport in a four-motored plane.

POLICY DECIDED ON
The German policy toward final partition of Poland was decided observers believed, at a conference last night of Fuehrer Hitler, Von Ribbentrop and Field Marshal Hermann Goering. No official comment was forthcoming on the conference, which continued into the early morning.

Informed quarters said sharp differences of opinion had prevailed in Germany regarding the Polish situation. A strong group of Nazis close to Goering, it was said, favored complete elimination of Poland and establishment of a Russian-German