Days later, a report that the Russian effort had quietened down was censored. Radio Polskie broadcast a statement from Bór-Komorowski that Warsaw had not received any help from the Russians, but the Polish Section was silent. By mid-August, the RAF were dropping supplies over Warsaw, and Bór-Komorowski thanked the pilots in a broadcast on the Polish Section. Yet the rising was not covered in detail and other military efforts took priority, with conflicting and confusing reports on the Russian effort on the right-bank of the Wisła river complicating proceedings. Around this time, however, the BBC began to broadcast reports from the insurgents’ radio station, Błyskawica, with 77 broadcasts from the station going out in English over the uprising period.
Coverage of a lack of Russian support for the uprising only appeared in early September with the Polish Section’s press review, which included articles from various national and regional papers criticising the Soviet action. Yet the section did continue to suggest the Russians were still moving towards Warsaw.
On 4th September, the section broadcast a talk by the Bund's Emanuel Scherer, addressed to the Jews of Warsaw:
You, who have gone through the hell of anti-Jewish tortures by the German occupation – and you who have gone through the Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto – and you working till now in hiding – and all you who fight with arms in your hands at the side of your co-citizens on the barricades of Warsaw – our homage and respect. You defend, in a terribly unequal battle, the honour of the Jewish race and its working class, fighting in the first ranks of the armed, rising in the Warsaw ghetto, being its promoter and its soul... And now for the third time in this war, you are fighting in the streets of Warsaw, under the same unconquered standards of the freedom of our land, nation, and all mankind. Not many of your comrades are able to take part in today's battle. Tens and hundreds of thousands of Jews, who would undoubtedly have fought had they lived till now, rest in the mass graves at Tremblinki, Majdanka, Belzcz, Sobibora, Oswiecimia, [sic] and so many other places of torture and death. But however few of you comrades are in the ranks of the Home Army – you ARE FIGHTING FOR YOURSELVES AND FOR THOSE WHO HAVE GONE.
On 6th September, the section also broadcast messages of support from King George VI and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, though recent intelligence on crimes committed by the Soviets against AK forces were not reported.
On 13th September, when Stalin agreed for the allied planes to fly over Warsaw, the Polish Section issued messages of gratitude from Poland and the Polish government to international air assistance, which were repeated days later. Nothing, however, was said about insufficient supplies or the rapidly deteriorating situation in the city. In the last two weeks of the uprising, the focus was on the Russian and allied assistance.
News of the collapse of the uprising came on 3rd October at 5:45pm, with the Allied efforts prized for doing all that they could to assist the insurgents. Nonetheless, the press review a day later included a piece criticising Allied support.
The end of the war