With cloudy weather over the wost= ern front and a quiet night along the entire line the situation assumed the typical "calm before the storm" fat the Allies. waited anxiously' today for the biggest German drive since the start of the hostilities.
"There was little action along the front last night as the Germans massed 00,000 troops along a 90-mile sector after earlier dislodging French advance forces along virtually the whole triangle sector bounded by the Sau and Moselle Rivers, French reports said.
Infants elements, sup ported by
Hist communique said, of the front," the were repulsed
While the Germans were continu mass troops, the Council of Ministers opened! at the P: at 10 a.m. today to discuss the Aovetupmients.—United Press Paris, Oct "AIL was. quiet on th whole during the night" states: a conn sued here today. "there was heavy in, "German. infantry" units, supe ported by artillery fire, have beet Fepelled at several points on the front."—Reuter Next Point, of Attompting to fore:
next German ati military ies here direct attention 16) the from the Rhine to jel Is. fairly open though dotted with woods, while the River Lauter euistitules a barrier.
French reconnaissance recently was very active in that area. From Pir-masons fo Merzig, the district is almost wholly industrial, with plealy of roads to facilitate a German ad-
Yance, but the frst weeks of the war
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