GRIP OF WINTER
CONDITIONS ON WEST FRONT ALLIED FORCES SETTLING DOWN. TRANSFORMATION OF BRITISH , SECTOR. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 12.50 p.m.) PARIS. November 14. A night communique states that there has been great patrol activity, particularly east of the Saar. As winter begins to grip the Western Front, the Allied forces are settling down, in their new positions. The British sector has now been transformed into a formidable lino of defence, bristling with tank traps, blockhouses and barbed wire entanglements. FRENCH GENERAL DEATH FROM EXHAUSTION AND OVERSTRAIN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON. November 14. The “Daily Telegraph” says General Pigeaud, who directed the capture and occupation of the Warndt Forest, on the West Front, in the first month of the war, died of exhaustion due to overstrain. He was buried with full military honours. He was 52 years of age.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1939, Page 6
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146GRIP OF WINTER Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1939, Page 6
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