WINTER'S GRIP

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 118, 15 November 1939, Page 9

WINTER'S GRIP

The western front

ALLIES SETTLE DOWN

NEW POSITIONS

(By Telegraph—Press Association--Copyright.) (Received November 15, 1.10 p.m,) LONDON, Novejnber 14. ■'...,-A French nignt communique states that there was great patrol activity, particularly east of the Saar. y As winjtep begins its grip on the Western Front the Allied forces are settling down to new positions. The British sector has now been transformed into a formidable line of defence bristling with tank traps, block houses, and barbed wire entanglements. 7Paris reports that gunfire was heard in the suburbs at noon. No sirens were sounded. A Berliri report stated that gunfire was audible in the city for fifteen minutes this afternoon, but that no details are available. MMtXW. JEXHAUSTI-f^, FRENCH GENERAL PIGEAUD

(Received" November 15, 1.15, pari.)

I LONDON, November 14.

The "Daily Telegraph" says that General P:geaud, who directed the capture and occupation of the Warndt Forest on the Western Front in the first.month of the war, died of exhaustion due to overstrain, and was buried with full military honours. He was 52 years of age.