Oct, 17. DETERMINED French troops halted a second furious and Jarge-scale attack by German forces along a 30- of the Saar area Monday night, French military officials revealed today after carlier announcing a disastrous setback suffered by. German troops in the Moselle sector, After withdrawing their advance guard clements, the main French forces met the drive of the Germans with such powerful counter-action that the Germans were forced back along the 30-kilometre front, The second major German attack occurred south of the Blieskastel and Zweibruecken areas where the German patrols were most active recently, it was officially announced.
Germany's second major attack in the! sector where there was great activity by German patrols last week was taken to bear out reports that the patrol action was the forerunner to intensive drives.
Meanwhile, the military expert of the "Petit Parisionne™ said. Recent German patrol tetiity on the Western Front was merely to: conceal Germany's intense prepaiions Song. (io front, French "observers, eciaiy the concentration of troops
however, discovered the German movements behind the Siegfried Line, he said, French observation pilots flying at night saw the Tights of the German trucks taking troops to the front, he declared, while motor noises were heard by the French revealing. the movements of numerous tanks. These observations, the. expert. declared, completed the picture of Nazi pre paration for a major offensive, He aid, however, that it wax not yet known when the offensive would begin, "It in more dificult to answer thie question," the newspaper's. military expert asserted," as. the enemy's reconnaissance expeditions undertaken during the last fow days betray cer-{nin hesitation and lack of confidences inthe faze of the uncertainty of the
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