CONTACTS ON WESTERN FRONT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20081, 30 October 1939, Page 7

CONTACTS ON WESTERN FRONT

EASING OF RAIDS BY GERMANS FURTHER CONCENTRATION OF TROOPS FRENCH RELEASE MEN OF 1910 CLASS MORE LONG SURVEY TRIPS BY R.A.F.

(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Get. 30, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 29. A war communique issued in Paris to-day stated: “There was reduced activity throughout the night.” The overnight communique stated: “There have been encounters oi scouting parties at different points of the front.” The French official radio commentator, discussing a further overnight communique, stating “All quiet on the entire front,” declared: “Enemy activity has considerably increased since yesterday, raids increasing in intensity east of the Moselle in the Forbaek-Saargue mines regions, mostly by groups of 100 men. German artillery lire has become systematic. It is no longer localised, but is generalised and directed on the entire front. The German General Staff is apparently seeking information and attempting to dislocate our {irmly established positions. “There are heavy concentrations of troops east from Bremen and also considerable activity inside Germany. What all this portends, come what may, we are ready. Eighty French divisions and the British Army arc ready .to meet all eventualities.” « Troops on North Sea Coast. Another Paris message says that information there confirms that the Nazis are concentrating troops on the North Sea coast between Bremen and Hamburg. The Paris correspondent of the United Press says the French Government has announced that older men serving, also those of any age with four or more children, may return home. This relieves 10,000 men from service, freeing the entire class of 1910, aged 49. The British Air Ministry announced yesterday that reconnaissance flights for the first time penetrated South Germany. All the machines returned safely. A report from-Berlin quotes a German High Command communique stating that there were no special happenings on the Western Front. Hitler Expected to Visit Front. A message from Amsterdam states that Herr Hitler will visit the Western Front during the week. The transfer of German troops from Poland is now completed. A delegation of British Parliamentarians under Brigadier Spears who are visiting the Western Front arrived and received a welcome. Major-General Beitli, the head of the War Office Public Relations Department, is conferring with General Headquarters in order to facilitate the work of twentyfive British journalists, broadcasters and photographers, nine American and four French journalists. Major-General Beith’s arrival may herald the arrival of war correspondents from neutral countries.