Somewhere In France, Oct. 9.
From. so slim' yoiing. Flights Lieutenant' who participated In. Sinazing survery_ of the. Siegfried Line, in the course of which Bute
Tiearmod aday some of ihe strange land. were only once fred Upon, tanes cidom ow" above 100
things encountered. behind. the. Ger= Iman defences in this" reconnlsfine Bein" amen ook the German defence works.
Wonderful series of photographs of
"rhe thing which impressed me moat" the FllghisLiewtenant told "was obviously the unfinied of the Sleg(ried Line, It was absurdly easy to identity, because rass has not Brow over the scarred In many places we xaw of freshly dug earth, but nowhere saw anyone actually ai work on fortifeations. At one place we flew over huge gun which a group of men were camouflaging. I distinelly saw them gaping at us, paint pots in their "hands, apparently unable to move.
"We passed many villages, but did not'see a single civilian inhabitant, The streets were nearly always deserted."
The Flight-Lieutenant, who was tunable to account for the fact that the only fire directed against them was from a solitary ordinary chine-gun, cannot offer an explanation for the strange reluctance of the Germans to protect the secrets behind their lines.
Things which mystified him were 'a series of curious unidentifiable mounds and pits in fields and woods, strangely large barns of a uniform "pattern onthe outskirts of many, villages, suspicious-looking. new buildings and conerete turrets: fon the outskirts of villages, curious experiments in." camouflage, and Sometimes "what might have been complete dununy villages—Reuter, Mme. Eve Curie Give Appointment Paris, Oct. 10.
Mine. Eve Joliot-Curie, authoress of the brilliant biography of her famous mother, Mme. Pierre ce-discoverer of radium, [appointed chief of the women's sect of the General Ci Legion of Monour u Abert ammeree and Ferma Pita cee een sppainted respect rely tive of the documentary Use of the Commissariat and. spokes tan of the Fur East section tists Copenhagen, Oct, 10.
FOLLOWING the encounter reported last night between British cruisers and a squadron of German bombers over the North Sea, it is now confirmed that two of German planes made a forced Tanding in Denmark. A third pi jane is reported to have descended in Norway and the crew has beer taken into custody by the Noi wegian Government, One plane is "believed to have fallen into the sea off the Danish coast, whi ile another bomber was sighted flying very low over the southern part of Jutland and was fired upon by Danish ant jreraft guns—Reuter.
London, Oct. 9.
Repeated actions took place today in the north-eastern arcas of the North Sea between German bombing aircraft and British cruisers and destroyers, according, gto an Admiralty announcement. No British ship is said to have been damaged, while German casual~ ties are stated to be unknown.
On the afternoon of October 8, the Admiralty. further states, a German naval squadron was reported by British patrol craft to the south-west of Norway. "Our forces tried to engage it" the communique adds, wrkness enabled the enemy to
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