MEASURES TO MEET ATTACK.

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20070, 17 October 1939, Page 8

MEASURES TO MEET ATTACK.

ALLIED ARMIES FULLY FOREWARNED SEEMING MASSING OF GERMAN TROOPS: — HITLER CONFERS WITH KEY MEN (Reed. Oct. 17, 1 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 16. j The Paris correspondent, of the Associated Press of Omit Britain states that the artillery on the whole of the French left flank laid down a barrage on (lermans massing from the Moselle to the Hard Forest, bombarding the communication j lines mid rearguard concentration points. The German strength in the Rhineland is estimated at | nearly 800,000. In an area opposing a vital sector of the Maginot Line the Germans reciprocally shelled the French rear, which customarily is a precedent for an infantry drive, j besides giving attention to the French advance posts. Motor head lamps could be observed on the roads to the front as far hack as 10 miles behind the German lines, this indicating active troop movements. The freqeunt flashing of torches along the German front lines suggested that new troops were being conducted to positions. The roar of engines was either from troop-laden motor lorries or a massing o:l tanks, or both. The French are perfectly forewarned and have taken all measures to meet an attack. A message from Berlin states that Herr Hitler presided at a military conference attended by key men of the German defence forces.