Rome, Sept. 25. ptar correspondents onthe Western front reported to their newspapers: today that the French apparently we preparing for an offensive on a vast seale—United Press, the French advance posts to recapture ground lost between the Siegfried Line and the frontier. In any case, the task of the German shock troops will be dimMeutt for the French have had more than a week in which to turn the defences of captured forti-fled positions to face "the other away." The French have also been digging new field fortifications, and ferocted barbed wire defences.
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