WESTERN FRONT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 April 1940, Page 6

WESTERN FRONT

ATTACKS BV ENEMY UNITS MADE AT SEVERAL POINTS IN VOSGES. REPULSED WITH LOSSES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 11.50 a.m.) RUGBY. April 14. A French official evening communique states; "At several points on the Vosges front, enemy infantry units, supported by artillery fire, tried to force our lines. They were repulsed and suffered losses.” NIGHT ENCOUNTER GERMAN PARTY ROUTED BY ALGERIANS. (Received This Day, 1 p.m.) PARIS. April 14. Twenty Algerian sharpshooters routed more than fifty Germans and took seven prisoners, after a bitter all night battle in no-man’s land. ■ PATROL FIGHTING

CLAIMS BY THE GERMANS. (Received This Day. 1 p.m.) BERLIN, April 14. The Official News Agency admits that an attack on an Allied position south-west of Merzig met with violent resistance, "consequently the enemy was partly wiped out.” A communique says: “At dawn two raiding parties penetrated enemy positions. Many of the enemy were killed or taken prisoner. Four trenches were destroyed. "South-west .of Saarlautern. on French soil, a Storm Troop detachment killed ten Frenchmen. "An enemy attack southward of Zweibrucken was repulsed with heavy losses. "Near Stein a patrol penetrated an enemy sentry line."

GERMANS SUFFER HEAVILY. IN ATTACK EAST OF MOSELLE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Dav. 10.30 a.m.) LONDON. April 14. It is authoritatively staled that two hundred Germans launched a big attack east of the Moselle. A cabled communique reports heavy German casualties.