WESTERN FRONT
INDECISIVE AIR ACTION IN REGION OF VERDUN. BRISK ARTILLERY EXCHANGES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.13 p.m.) RUGBY. April 23. The headquarters of the British Air Force in France announces: “Today British and German fighter patrols fought an indecisive action in the neighbourhood of Verdun. One Messerschmitt 110 is believed to have been shot down. One of our aricraft was set on fire by enemy action, but the pilot escaped by parachute."
The French official evening communique states: "There has been fairly brisk activity by artillery on both sides between the Moselle and Blois. Enemy patrols have been repulsed to the west of the Vosges. There was an exchange of rifle fire along the banks of the Rhine.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1940, Page 8
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