PILLBOXES FALL
INTENSE BOMBARDMENT RAPID DEVELOPMENTS ZONE 12 MILES WIDE NO MAN’S LAND CONFLICT (Reed. Sept. 8, Noon.) NEW YORK, Sept 7. A message from Paris states that artillery duels and localised operations are developing rapidly on the Franco-German front, mainly in the 12-mile-wide zone -between the permanent fortifications. There has been most intense activity in the - Carlsbrunn forest, between Saarlautern and Saarbrucken. » The French are reported to have captured several 1 ranges of pillboxes, and the artillery is hammering at the Saarbrucken-Saarlautern road and railway
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20037, 8 September 1939, Page 5
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