RAIN & MUD
RESTRICTING ACTIVITIES ON WEST FRONT NEW MACHINE-GUN TAKEN BY FRENCH. i SOME GERMAN AREAS STILL HELD. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) PARIS, October 24. Ceaseless rain and deepening mud confined activities on the Siegfried and Maginot Lines to a local intensification of fighting after the weekend lull. The French carried out a successful raid east of the Moselle and took prisoners and a new machinegun, which experts are examining. The Germans are mainly active west of Forbach where they attacked with hand-grenades. The French were holding a German village, but recoiled under an artillery barrage and machine-gun fire. The French retain certain foothold’s on German soil where they are of military importance. ' ROAD ACCIDENTS * FATALITIES IN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. / (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, October 24. Reuter’s correspondent with the British Expeditionary Force in France says a ‘few dozen men have died in the British zone during the war, mostly victims of road accidents.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1939, Page 6
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160RAIN & MUD Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1939, Page 6
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