FRENCH RETIREMENT
MADE TO PREARRANGED POSITIONS. GUNS MASSED ON BRITISH - ■SECTOR. (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, October 18. While a German communique claims a French retirement between the Moselle and the Palatinate Forest the fact is that thinned French outposts waited till the Germans were advancing and then fired rockets as a signal to artillery and machine-guns, which opened' up a barrage. The French meanwhile were falling back to prearranged positions. Trains and motor-waggons poured in Germans throughout the night behind the lines. It is revealed that hundreds of British guns, ranging from massive howitzers to motorised anti-tank guns, are massed on the British sector on the West front. .
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1939, Page 7
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110FRENCH RETIREMENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1939, Page 7
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