TACTICAL SUCCESS
GAINED BY THE FRENCH ON WEST FRONT GERMAN FORT CAPTURED. MANY AIR ENCOUNTERS.' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, September 29. The Paris correspondent of “The Times” states that a local attack resulted in the French capturing Obcrperl Fort, in a triangle between the Saar and the Moselle. A batallion of infantry, with lank support, achieved this purely tactical success, taking' many prisoners, on a 4J mile front. The Germans simultaneously unsuccessfully attacked along the Saarbrucken front.
Aerial encounters are more frequent. German interceptor planes attacking returning Allied reconnaissance machines were attacked in turn by French and British escort machines, to the advantage of the latter. President Lebrun visited the northeastern sector, where he awarded three decorations.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1939, Page 8
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