AIR FIGHTING
AND ARTILLERY DUELS ACTIVITIES ON WESTERN FRONT. SEVERAL GERMAN PLANES x SHOT DOWN. Ey Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) PARIS, September 21. Aerial activity on the Western front is noticeably increasing, although the operations of the. land forces are still confined to skirmishing tactics and heavy artillery exchanges. Military despatches reaching Paris report that British and French planes successfully engaged enemy planes in dogfights and shot down several. The French infantry, in a series of sharp local engagements, advanced their lines closer to Saarbruckcn and Zweibrucken. They are reported to have reached the outskirts of the latter city, which is one of the most strongly fortified of the Siegfried outposts. Raiding parties made contact with German patrols along the hun-dred-mile line from the Luxenbourg frontier to the south-east.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1939, Page 6
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