GERMAN RAIDS
ABORTIVE ATTEMPTS ON WEST FRONT ONE FAILURE FOLLOWS ANOTHER. LACK OF EXPERIENCED OFFICERS 3y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 11.15 a.m.) PARIS, November 26. The Nazis unsuccessfully attempted a second raid on French positions east of the Moselle. It is believed that the same troops were engaged as on the previous raid, as a punishment for the failure of the first effort. Two detachments, nearly a mile apart, left the German lines under cover of darkness, but French artillery and machineguns repulsed them. The French consider that the bad management of both attacks was due to the Jack of experienced officers and non-coms. According to a Berlin message, the Official News Agency stales that British warplanes tried to cross the German frontier but the anti-aircraft defence forced them back. All is quiet on the front, except, for artillery. German patrols captured several French prisoners,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1939, Page 5
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