FRENCH AIR TRIUMPH

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 256, 8 November 1939, Page 4

FRENCH AIR TRIUMPH

NINE DEFEAT TWENTY-SEVEN FICMRING OYER, AVESTERN FRONT GERMANS BEATEN OFF IN : LAND RAIDS BID TO TAKE SMALL RHINE iSLAN D Alii/l KD GRIP BEYOND "M AGINOT LINE LONDON, Nov. 0. To-night’s French official communique states that there was great activity by aviation on both sides of tho Western Front. “During & violent fight nine French fighters attacked a group of 27 German fighters,” continues the communique. “Nine of tho latter were brought down, of which seven fell within our territory. Every one of our planes engaged in this encounter returned safely.” The French official morning communique stated that local artillery activity took place at several points of the front-. Steady shelling ringed Forbad). There was also heavy artillery duels in the Blies sector. Rscspture of Outpost. An official Paris radio states that Germans on reconnaissance in the Vosges sector captured a French outpost, but later were beaten off with hand grenades. Trench mortars also prevented a German attempt to capture a small island in the Rhine in floats. German planes flew over the Allied) lines once, hut the French penetrated German territory more deeply.