Paris, Sept. 24.
German troops on the Western Front launched a heavy counterattack against the French positions Fast night, the French Tigh Command anioniced here. The German attack Was launched after the Tigh Command in Berlin had announced that the "German campaign in Poland has ended.
French officers said German shock troops had been repulsed three times during bitter fighting east of the Saar River. Powerful, long range art ery on both sides continued to boun enemy lines afler 24 hours of constant shelling which approached the intensity of 9 barrage, The German attacks and the artil-ory bombardment, which was initiate ed by heavy German artillery, were believed here to have hailed the arrival of Gen. Walter von Brauchitseh, German commander-in-chief, on the Western Front from Poland"
Germans Value Lost Areas French machine-gunners and artillery units were said to have crumbled three successive waves of Germans attempting to reach the forest which the French captured near Saarbruecken. The Germans met the French with hand grenades and bayonets.
German artillery was reported to bbe blasting French positions and Toads behind the" Maginot Line. French officers said "activity" had broken out between the Saar and Deuxponts because it was there that the Prench had made gains which the Germans appeared to consider important.
"The French are understood to have driven within sight of Deuxponts which ties within the main German West Wall fortifications.
The French High Command claimd alr superiority: over Germany yesterday and said French planes had signalled the movements of German troops along the front. Additional German concentrations were reported at Aix-La-Chapelle opposite Belgium fand in the Black Forest opposite Switzerland—United Press.
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