![]() The adults involved were teachers, people with disabilities and their helpers, mothers with preschool children. In a mass evacuation effort (code named "operation Pied Piper") the British authorities relocate 1,473,000 children and adults from the cities to the countryside.The British War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha orders the War Office to begin the general mobilization of the British Armed Forces.The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes an emergency military budget.Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Romania and Sweden immediately declare their neutrality.The Italian government announces that it will maintain a condition of " non-belligerence" in the conflict.Resisters entrenched in the city's Polish Post Office are overwhelmed. In the same day, the Free City of Danzig is annexed by Germany. Shortly before 6:00 a.m., the German Army passes the Polish border in great numbers from north and south, together with Slovak units. At the same time the Luftwaffe attacks several targets in Poland, among them WieluĊ, the first town in the war to be carpet bombed by the Germans. when the Kriegsmarine's battleship Schleswig-Holstein opens fire on the Polish military transit depot at Westerplatte in the Free City of Danzig on the Baltic Sea, but the attack is repulsed. The invasion of Poland by Germany starts at 4:45 a.m.This conflict will eventually be swept up into World War II when Japan joins the Axis and China joins the Allies. The war is in what will be known as the "Second Period", which starts after the fall of Wuhan in October 1938 and ends in December 1941 with Pearl Harbor. The Republic of China and the Empire of Japan are involved in the early stages of the third year of armed conflict between them during the Second Sino-Japanese War. ![]() September The Allies and Axis powers at the dawn of the German/Soviet invasion of Poland Day 1
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