Fifty Villages Captured

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20056, 30 September 1939, Page 5

Fifty Villages Captured

DEEP ADVANCE ON WIDE FRONT

Germany Massing Resources In West

HEAVY ARTILLERY BARRAGE CONTINUES

Cold Weather Trying To Troops Of Front Line

(Elec. Tel Copyright—United Press Assn.)

(Reccl. Sept. 30, 12 noon.) LONDON, Sept. 29. The Basle correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says that the movement of troops and material westward through Central Germany was ajt its height last liight. A French General Staff communique issued in Paris announces that ail air battje took place at Wissembourg and a French plane was shot down. German patrols attacked on both ends of the Western Front.

The French have captured 50 German villages since hostilities opened. The French have advanced 1600 yards on a front of four miles and a half in the Moselle region yesterday.

Air raid warning was given in Paris this morning. The all-clear signal was given 40 minutes later. No gunfire was heard.

Paris reports state that the comparative lull continues on the Western Front with occasional raids. The French took a number of prisoners in the afternoon in the sector nearest the Moselle River. There was much firing of heavy guns. The weather is becoming cold and very .trying for .the frontline troops, especially at night.

Poland’s gallant stand helped the French mobilisation and concentration to proceed unimpeded and the British concentration to begin under normal conditions and the Allies’ High Command not only to enter German territory but to occtfpy strongly-held positions facing the West Wall, thus facilitating future operations and the French armies to obtain the cohesion and eo-operation so necessary when millions of men take the field.