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ACTIVE ARTILLERY FIRE NAZI TROOPS MASSED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrisnw LONDON, Dec. 18 An official French communique this evening announced that there was a sharp engagement between the Saar and the Vosges, when the French took some prisoners, including two officers. It was quiet elsewhere. A German communique states that artillery fire between the Moselle and the Pfalzer Wood was more active. The German Air Force carried out reconnaissance flights over eastern France. The massing of German troops between the left bank of the Rhine and the Luxembourg, Belgian and Dutch frontiers continues, says the Eupen correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. Twenty Army Corps are involved, each composed of two to three divisions which are partly augmented by troops from Central Germany and Poland. The mechanised divisions on the Rhine have been largely reinforced and their firing power increased. Relations between the German troops and local civilians are unsatisfactory. Discontent is openly shown by the German troops owing to the suppression oi Christmas leave.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20992, 20 December 1939, Page 7
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168ON WESTERN FRONT Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20992, 20 December 1939, Page 7
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