ANOTHER DELUGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1939, Page 5

ANOTHER DELUGE

ON THE WESTERN FRONT

COUNTRYSIDE SOAKED. PROSPECTS OF OFFENSIVE RECEDE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. PARIS, October 24. The morning communique reports no noteworthy activity during Iho night. The British United Press correspondent, Mr Webb Miller, with the British Expeditionary Force in France, says that torrential' rain is again deluging the Western Front, and the prospects of' a big German autumn offensive are receding further, as the countryside is already waterlogged. exposed trenches are half-filled with water and the rivers are flooded. . Modern motorised .war machines attempting to operate on the Western Front at present would be hopelessly bogged. The “Petit Parisien’s” correspondent. M. Charles Morice, emphasises that the French do not intend to launch a big offensive against the Siegfried Lino. The Press emphasises that the Allied Navies are well able to cope with intensive air and naval offensives against Britain’s blockade. A German High Command communique reports: "No particular hostilities at the front.”