| In Moscow... An armistice agreement is signed
between Japan and the USSR ending their four-month-old "Nomonhan Incident"
consisting of protracted fighting on the borders of Manchukuo
(Manchuria) and Mongolia. Both sides have been under pressure from
Germany to settle the dispute since the signing of the German-Soviet
non-aggression pact. Peace talks were initiated by the new Japanese
cabinet, appointed two weeks ago, after Japan lost 17,000 troops in one
battle.
In Poland... German troops are reducing the Polish Poznan
Army encircled at Kutno. Brest-Litovsk, 120 miles east of Warsaw, is
surrounded. The Warsaw military commander, Polish Major General Juliusz
Rommel, refuses to discuss a surrender proposal form the Germans.
In Bucharest... The Romanian government grants asylum to
Polish civilian refugees; military personnel are to be disarmed and
interned.
In Germany... German radio broadcasts interviews with British
and New Zealander aircrew captured during the Wilhelmshaven raid on
September 4th.
In Britain... Motorists besiege petrol stations, although no
date for rationing has been fixed yet.
In Canada... The first British trans-Atlantic convoy sets sail
from Halifax, Nova Scotia. From now on all ships carrying vital supplies
of Canadian wheat and US munitions are to travel in convoys scheduled
and protected by the British and Canadian navies. The first convoy
organized during the war sailed from Gibraltar on September 2nd. The
vital Glasgow-Thames coastal trade is now moving in convoys as well.
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