Paris, Oct, 21.
Patrol activities on both sides featured a quiet night on the Western front, the official General Staff communique announced here today. Artillery batteries saw action on both sides, it was added, Germans. Rep men with the baths when they ture" on the Western Front, military. sources indi The objective of man operations "on the Western Front, they said, "is apparently. to ain high ground for a further vance." They indicated that the German attack would probably pro coed between Luxembourg and the bend in the Rhine. There was also the. possibility of a move through Belgium, Holland, or Switzerland. "These possibilities cannot be ruled U-Boat Beaten by Armed Merchantman London, Oct, 21.
The Arst story of a fight be~ tween a U-boat and a British armed merchant ship resulted the sinking of the German submarine, according to the Ministry of Information.
The story, which tells of the sea duel, reached Malta House, London, today from a Maltese seaman, who sailed as a fireman on board a British trader from Bristol to South America. 'The ship, when attacked by the U-boat, brought her guns into action.' She defended herself '80 well in the subsequent hot exchange that the hull of the submarine was holed.
A British destroyer arrived on the scene and the U-boat, unable to submerge with a damaged hull, was at the destroy-cer's mercy. According to the seaman, the destroyer "had no diffcul'y in finishing off the U-
Berlin, Oct. 21, A communique Issued by the High Command today states that there was lively activity" of artillery and reconnaissance patrols in eeviain sectors of the frontier region between the Moselle and Saarbruecken. 'The com-ni unique also claims that the "enemy" yesterday evacuated Warndt Forest, West of Saurbruecken, with the ex: ception of two hills.' Other sectors, it says, were all quiet, except for slight, Yocal artillery fre—Reuter.
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