Paris, Oct. 22.
Patrols and light artillery fire in the Moselle-Saar sector was the only marked activity during the past 24 hours on the entire front, it was learned ast night. Authoritative circles said operations on the front had entered an "indeterminate phase" with both sides on the defensive Rain and cold weather were prevent: ing large-scale movements, they #314, There was no indication of a forthcoming attack from either side.
The military expert on "Lo Petit Parisien" asserted that the "French forees made a strategic withdrawal this week because they concluded that no big-scale offensive was posslble at this time of the year, The French planned the withdrawal only after preparing a new intermediate line of defence from which their position would be even stronger, he declared—United Press.
The roads were teaming with British transport trucks and great tractors Tnuling big calibre guns Motor lorries loaded with food and petrol, fast light-gun carriers, and motor ears of every size filled the roads. The popular baby car predominated among the cars, General Marie Gustave Gamelin, Commander-in-Chief of the French and Allied Forces, paid a visit to General Lord Gort. Commander-in-Chief of the -British "Field Forces, yesterday at general headquarters. Gen, Gamelin inspected some. parts of the British line and expressed himself as extremely satisfied with the efficient way in which the troops Withdrawal Came in Time Paris. Oct, 22.
The withdrawal of French troops from their advanced positions west of the Biles River was a timely operation, a semi-oficial bulletin on the military situation emphasized to: day. The general swelling of the rivers in the front-line region, result ing in the plains being flooded, would The French troops are now firmly entrenched on the eastern bank the Blies River on heights from where they can defy any German Push which would automatically be british Army London, Oct, 22.
Captain Hermit Roosevelt, son of the late United States President Theodore Roosevelt, was granted a second lieutenant's commission In the British Army in which he served as captain during the Great War, it was earned last night.
Buried in the long list of military appointments in the " "London Gazette," October 13, was the announcement that: ' "Captain "K. Roosevelt was granted an emergency commission as second lieutenant of the Middleser Regiment, dating from October 14."
Captain "Roosevelt was recently reported becoming a British subject order to take a post in the New Ministry of Shipping. This was considered still possible, as an appointment in the Army might be a short-cut to British eltizenship—United Press, Danish Ship Stopped by German Off U.S.A.
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