AERIAL ACTIVITY INCREASING

Evening Star, Issue 23378, 22 September 1939, Page 9

AERIAL ACTIVITY INCREASING

WESTERN FRONT OPERATIONS SEVERAL ENEMY PLANE? DOWN PARIS, September 21. (Received September 22, at 1.30 p.m.) Aerial activity on the western front is noticeably increasing, although tho operations of the land forces are still confined to skirmishing tactics and heavy artillery exchanges. Military despatches reaching Paris report that British and French planes successfully engaged enemy planes in dog fights and shot down several.

French infantry, in a series of sharp local engagements, advanced their lines closer to Saarbrucken and Zweibrucken and are reported to have reached the outskirts of the latter city, which is one of the most strongly-fortified of the Siegfried outposts. Raiding parties made contact with German patrols along a 100-mile line from the Luxembourg frontier to the south-east.

WESTERN FRONT ENEMY ARTILLERY ACTIVITY SITUATION OTHERWISE QUIET PARIS, September 21. (Received September 22, at 2.30 p.m.) A communique states that the day was generally quiet and uneventful. There was some enemy artillery activity south of Saarbrucken. “ Despite the bad weather and anti-aircraft lire, we carried out a number of reconnaissance flights.”