The Archive · 1939

Persistent Raids

Paris, Oct. 12, The German High Command seems Jdetermined to obtain information regarding French strategical positions and strength along the Rhine-Moselle Front.

big attack with massed infantry Inas "been launched, but there have been "persistent raids with small patrols in an attempt to gather Information and take prisoners from whom the facts of the situation might be gathered.

Machine-gun and light artillery fre! nas held up all raiding parties.

"German reconnaissance planes have been busy, mostly taking oblique

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account