FRENCH ADVANCE
GERMANS EVACUATE SIX TOWNS MOVEMENT ON SIXTY-MILE FRONT. OTHER TOWNS THREATENED. LONDON, October 4. The French official communique on activities on the Western Front issued yesterday stated that the night had been quiet. There had been artillery fire on both sides south of Saarbrucken. The French troops’ advance on a 60mile front, seeking to surround six German towns, has been so swift that the Germans had been compelled to evacuate the towns completely. The towns are Bergzaben, Pirmasens, Saarbrucken, Zweibrucken, Saarluten, and Merzig. Kaiserlauten, six miles behind the front, has also been evacuated, and the Rhine town of Strasburg, with 120,000 inhabitants, is in course of evacuation.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1939, Page 7
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109FRENCH ADVANCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1939, Page 7
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