VOSGES THRUST
ADVANCE BY FRENCH
FIVE-EIGHTS OF A MILE
HAND-GRENADE FIGHT
GERMANS REPULSED
(Reed. Nov. 28, 12 noon) LONDON, Nov. 27,
Messages from Paris state that the morning communique states that nothing important occurred throughout the night
The official Paris commentator states however, that a French detachment ir. the Vosges sector to-day occupied a strip of no man’s land to a depth of five-eights of a mile and in a violent hand-grenade duel repulsed the Germans.
Berlin messages quote a German Higti Command communique stating that there was no activity on the Western Front except weak artillery fire.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20106, 28 November 1939, Page 7
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98VOSGES THRUST Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20106, 28 November 1939, Page 7
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