STILL SEEKING PRISONERS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20067, 13 October 1939, Page 11

STILL SEEKING PRISONERS

ALLIES STOP SCOUTING AIRMEN ROUGH HANDLING BY FIGHTERS % ’ SUPERIOR FRENCH PURSUIT PLANES (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. .October 12, 3 p.m.) LONDON, 'October 11. A message from Paris quotes a Western Front communique reporting increasing enemy patrols between t m l the Saar with artillery action on both sides. Tim ™icates that the Germans are continuing their tactics <>L the three days. Determined efforts to secure prisoneis again failed. The Germans, despite clouds and rain, arc eniploy|ng numerous observation planes escorted by fighteis g to photograph behind the French lines but the *iencU defensive fire is so intense that they rarely have i crossing no man’s land and when they did vue iou & 3 handled by the British and French, fighters. ■The French Air Minister, M. La Chambre, told the Senate air commission .to-day that the French pursuit pilots had nroved superior in all the air battles which frequently mvoh eel a’superior Clumber of the enemy. Boeonnaissance machines carried out day and night missions often foj- several hund eds of miles behind the German lines. The output of material was up to the estimates and the operations demonstrated that the quality of the French equipment was excellent.