ARTILLERY ACTION
MAY PRELUDE GENERAL OFFENSIVE
GERMANS MASSING PLANES NEAR SWISS BORDER. STRONG BRITISH FORCES IN FRANCE. (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, September 25. The Associated Press of America’s Paris correspondent says French artillery, supporting infantry attacks on the German flank fired plentifully high calibre shells against the Siegfried Line from Karlesruhe to the Swiss frontier, in order to forestall an expected German offensive. Military observers believe that today’s big gun action may be the prelude to a general offensive. French troops driving towards Saarbrucken suddenly swung north, in the direction of Blieskastel, where the main Siegfried Line begins. The French, however, appear to be on the defensive against German pressure at Wissembourg. The Germans are massing planes.at strategic points near the Swiss border, indicating intensified aerial operations, and are also erecting aerodromes. Senegalese troops are effectively participating in the French operations.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1939, Page 6
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143ARTILLERY ACTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1939, Page 6
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