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Show Warsaw Holds Out in Bloody Siege RUSS TROOPS CLOSE BORDER TO REFUGEES i Polish Defenders Ask Assistance From Britain, France BUDAPEST, Sept. 20 (AP) Fast-moving soviet mechanized forces pushing further westward west-ward into Poland were reported report-ed today to have blockaded the entire Polish-Rumanian frontier, fron-tier, while Warsaw, still fight-ling fight-ling the German invasion, buried bur-ied her dead in public parks. Severe fighting was reported especially es-pecially around Lwow (Lembergl and In the Bug river district. The massing of Russian troops along the Rumanian border cut the strenm of refugees from Poland, but thousands, finding their way barred on that border, poured Into Hungary. Soldiers among them were disarmed, and civilians were sent to special camps. A Hungarian agency estimated 30.nou civilians and 10,000 soldiers had reached the Rumanian border town of Cernauti before the soviet lines were drawn. Broadcast Reports Radio broadcasts from Warsaw, entering the thirteenth day of siege, presented a graphic picture of a city whose dclenders had oued to resist the (Germans to the death and seemed to be doing do-ing It. "Warsaw will resist," said a communique com-munique read over the capital's radio station last night. "We have confidence in our government and confidence in our great allies, France and Britain. Warsaw is doing do-ing its duty." The communique went on to tell of widespread destruction from German bombs and shells, of bombs that tell before St. John's cathedral cathe-dral as worshipers emerged from mass, of machine-gun attacks from the air on the churchgoers. The communique ended: "Many war cemeteries are now in the public parks of Warsaw." This broadcast said the royal palace pal-ace of Belvedere, the parliament building and "hundreds" of other structures had been destroyed. Later, the Polish commander, a General Czuma, came on the air and broadcast a report his men had Inflicted heavy losses on German Ger-man infantrymen in the Praga tConllfiun on Pncp Two) (Column Eight I WARSAW STILL . RESISTS NAZIS (Continued Proas Fan - Ontl suburban district to the east and also on the west. Mayor .Stefan Starzinskl asked: "When will Britain and France give such aid to Poland as will save us from the fury of German barbarism, from new deaths, from destruction of the remaining buildings build-ings of our city?" The announcer explained the "death of hundreds of thousands of women and children and other defenseless civilians of Warsaw" had "forced" the mayor to put that question to Poland's allies. Another broadcast said: "War law will continue to resist so long as her men are able to carry arms." The declarations of continued resistance came despite the fact Polish government leaders, including includ-ing President Ignaos Moscicki, had left the country. Every one of the speakers who alternated at the Warsaw microphone micro-phone declared "We will not surrender." sur-render." The station remained on the air throughout the night Most of the broadcasts apparently were designed to keep up the courage of Warsaw citizens for whom sleep must have been nearly impossible in the city e death, ' |