FRENCH AND BRITISH AIRMEN

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20085, 3 November 1939, Page 11

FRENCH AND BRITISH AIRMEN

GUNS CHECK COUNTER PATROLS

BERLIN HOPES OF RIFT NOW FADING

FURIOUS ONSLAUGHTS ON ALLIES

ARMIES WAIT ON WESTERN FRONT

(Elec. Tel. Copyright.—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Nov. 2, 3 p.m.) LONDON. Nov. 1

A night communique issued in Paris- reports the usual activity by light infantry elements on both sides on the Western Front.

As Germany’s big guns boomed throughout the day squadrons of Allied observation planes penetrated deep y m o German territory. Despatches reaching Paris from the front say that seven squadrons of French machines completed nn mission and returned safely, despite intensive file.

German planes also flew over the Allied lines. Antiaircraft guns are reported to have brought down tluee. As the armies enter the third month of the war they still are asking the same question: “When and where will the gun really go off on the Western Front?” Driving his ow'n ear the Duke of Gloucester to-day visited the front lines in drenching rain and inspected heavy guns. The Berlin correspondent of the News Exchange Agency states that Germany is abandoning hopes of wooing France from England and is supplementing vicious attacks against England with attacks against France. The German press emphasises the economic and political collaboration between Russia ancPGermany. The Nachtausgabe says that Britain and France comfort themselves that Russia is staying neutral, but Germany lias always emphasised that she can see the struggle through alone.

The Amsterdam correspondent of the News Exchange Agency states that German trains making even short journeys are hours late, due to military movements westward, including the carrying of motorised units in the effort to save petrol. Travellers describe fear of air raids throughout the country, even in small, remote towns..