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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1939
Page
4
An expert crafted map details the Western Front fortifications. It shows Maginot and Siegfried lines varying from 5 to 40 miles deep with pillboxes forts tunnels and anti aircraft sites. French works rely on tunneling while German lines are trench heavy and overlapped.
James L Brown reports from Cernaut, Rumania about Ambassador Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr and family arriving at Zaleszczeki near the Polish border to establish a temporary embassy. The piece details the arduous journey, the rudimentary farmhouse headquarters, and shifting front lines with German raids near Lwow, Tarnopol, and the Romanian railway terminus under bombardment as Warsaw and other Polish areas resist.
A Lithuanian message says thirty five thousand school children invalids and aged people are to be evacuated from Kaunas immediately. Authorities call it a precautionary move amid Polish German hostilities.
Prince Frisk von Stathemberg former Austrian vice chancellor awaits Premier Dalaier’s reply to form an Austrian legion to fight alongside France. He is at the Riviera with his film star wife Nora Gregor and is seeking permission to mobilize forces.
A Brussels dispatch, carried by the London Daily Herald, reports German discontent over the unfinished Siegfried Line on the western front. Workers laboring to complete it allegedly face rising frustration and tensions as the project stalls and German authorities push for progress.
Moscow reports an inquiry about the fate of the Bremen with British naval forces said to influence its location. German ambassador to Soviet Russia Lewn Von der Schulenburg declined to answer, noting American delays in New York and the potential use of destroyers to pursue the Bremen.
Dispatches from Vienna report general conscription ordered by the emperor while German forces strike at the alien left. Paris claims 40 killed by German bombs as rumors of French capital danger spread. Petrograd says a vast German corps shifts east to repel Russian threats in East Prussia and Galicia, with troops rushed to the western theater.
Hepresentative Paul Kilday, preparing to return to Washington, backs repeal of embargo restrictions and cash and carry provisions in an amended neutrality act. He argues the US can sell to all nations under international law and that embargoes do not stop wars. He cites the Spanish Civil War and urges keeping out belligerents while supporting cash and carry to protect ships. He forecasts congress will pass the president's neutrality plan but expects Senate opposition led by Borah. He plans to leave San Antonio on Tuesday with Alsfarily.
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