ALLIED FORCES ON WESTERN FRONT
Wonders of the Maginot Line HITLER DECLARED TO BE DOOMED NO MATCH FOR A FREE PEOPLE (By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, October 3. The correspondent of the “New A ork Times with the French armies on the German frontier states that the German list of killed and wounded so far numbers about 0000 with between TOO and 200 Germans taken prisoner. The French casualties are smaller. , “These figures represent only a few minor operations compared with the scale of an offensive of'the Great War,” the correspondent says. “Each side is testing out the other (with the French doing most of the testing with the hope of saving precious lives). That does not mean that they are not ready for the real test. A high officer stated: ‘We are ready for anythino’ we meet, or to make an offensive.’ That is not a boast, but on the contrary, it may be an understatement. “All ranks are filled with a. determination to see the business through. They know they have the means to do it, as well as the spirit.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1939, Page 7
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183ALLIED FORCES ON WESTERN FRONT Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1939, Page 7
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