Moves On Western Front

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20040, 12 September 1939, Page 7

Moves On Western Front

FRENCH PUSH IN SAAR ZONE Strengthening Positions Gained GERMAN OFFENSIVE EAST OF MOSELLE Poles Still Stemming Invaders In South (Elec. Tel. Copyright.—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Sept. 11, 2.50 p.m.) , LONDON, Sept. 10. An official French communique states that a series of actions carried out according to plans enabled advances between the Saar and the Vosges. The Germans are reported to have launched an offensive in the Siervk region, east or Moselle. • The Paris paper Le Temps semi-offieially states that a -French division dented one point of the Siegfried Line. The Germans, marching through underground galleries and colleries counter-attacked the French in the Saar Basin a lter emerging with machine-guns and automatic rifles. A further semi-official review of the situation says that the French spent Saturday night in the area conquered on Thursday,_ strong! heiiing their positions and establishing liaison with their starting points. Their advance guards in captured German blockhouses fought off night raiders. Fresh troops joined the isolated forward positions, converting them into a continuous line. , , , The Paris official wireless states the French line between the Rhine and the Moselle is entirely on German territory, where the French hold 350 square miles along a 120-milc front. The average depth is three miles. The French General Stall is l clearing the way for the infantry. A German wireless message from Berlin' announces that French armoured cars entered German territory for the first time. The German report states that many French were killed. An officer was captured. The Basle (Switzerland), correspondent of the Associated Press of America says that the French forces in the Saar arc reported to have resumed the attack shortly after daybreak and pushed within range of the automatic arms of tl ( ie mam Siegfried Line forts. Under three miles are separating them from the forts at some points. It is also reported that the French' troops are moving into, action in the Vosges foothills. The French occupy the towns of Lauterbaeli, Listen, Lerus and the villages of Carlsbrunn, St. Nickolaus and Übcrlierrn, with the German salient between the Rose! and Bist creeks, west and south from Saarbrucken. wiped out. The line a present appears to run parallel with the Saar River, northwest from- the Forbaeh area, turning west near Mer/.ig ancl joining flic old frontier near Apnch. The representative of The Times oil the Polish frontier declares that the Polish resistance is still stemming _ the invaders south of Pultusk, while the Polish garrison supported by the heaviest artillery, has not been dislodged from I-lel Peninsula, outside of Gdynia. The German High Command officially announces that the German troops have halted north-east and south-west o Warsaw where battles now joined seem likely to be decisive.