MENACED CITY
FALL OF SAARBRUCKEN EXPECTED DEVELOPMENT OF FRENCH PINCER ATTACK. GERMAN COUNTER-OFFENSIVE EFFORTS. PARIS, September 30. Semi-official sources declare that the fall of Saarbrucken can be expected shortly. It is claimed that three-fourths of the city is already surrounded and if the Germans do not abandon it soon they will run the risk of being cut off from the main Siegfried Line, several miles behind the city. The French are exercising pressure in the form of a pincers movement against the central fortifications. Three results have already been achieved:— First, the Germans have been obliged to bring -up reinforcements, revealing nervousness. Secondly the complete evacuation of the mining region has begun. Thirdly, mining operations for the remainder of the war have been rendered most difficulut. The military expert of the “Petit Parisien” declares it is a plain fact that the Germans are unable to halt the French advance,, revealing coun-ter-offensive weakness ' despite the participation of the largest part of the divisions charged with the defence of the Siegfried Line.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1939, Page 5
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170MENACED CITY Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1939, Page 5
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