QUIET ON FRONT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20111, 4 December 1939, Page 8

QUIET ON FRONT

PARIS COMMUNIQUE j BERLIN CONTRAST ALLIED ENTRENCHMENT j “CARELESS” BEHAVIOUR I | ! (Elec. Te!. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Dec. 4. 1.30 p.m:) LONDON, Dec. 3. ; The French official morning com- \ munique states that there is nothing! of importance to report. There was j some artillery action. Paris reports state that the Ger-1 mans are concentrating a great mass j of bombers on the Western Front for which , purpose' they are constructing many now aerodromes in Frankfort | and Rhine Valley regions. The army dispositions on the Swiss; and Dutch borders are unchanged, j permitting any offensive at two clays' j notice. Tiie French communique stating: j “Nothing of importance throughout I the night," contrasts with the Ger- ! man communique which states: “The j enemy. is applying himself to entrenching between the Rhine and the i Moselle and is behaving very care-

lessly in some places. Enemy entrenching work south of Manciern was harassed by our artillery and

machine-gun fire. The enemy’s artillery shelled Hamelsberg. Obevperl and also Mainsberg Castle. There

was also increasing and 'harassing

fire in other sectors. Enemy light and j medium artillery bombarded between j the Moselle and Bueschdorf through- I out the day. Minor fights between j German fighting planes and enemy j aircraft yielded no results." The official German wireless an- j nounces from Berlin that an “un- | successful” British air raid on Heligoland was driven ofT at noon.