WESTERN FIGHTING
/ AIR OBSERVATION EFFORTS BY GERMANS PLAMES ROUGHLY HANDLED. FEW ABLE TO CROSS NO MAN'S LAND. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.25 p.m.) PARIS. October 11. A French Western Front communique reports an increasing activity cf enemy patrols between the Moselle and the Saar, with artillery action on both sides. This indicates that the Germans are continuing their tactics of the past three "days. Determined efforts to secure prisoners failed. The Germans. despite clouds and rain, are employing numerous observation planes, escorted by fighters, attempting 'to photograph behind the French lines, but the French defensive fire was so intense that they rarely succeeded in crossing no man’s land,. and when they did they were roughly handled by British and French fighters. A German High Command communique states that there was weak artillery activity during the day after a quiet night.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1939, Page 8
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