Nov. 12.
Twenty-one years after the Armistice of the "war to end all wars," 10,000,000 French, British and German fighters are again face to face in almost the same alignment where the Western Front ran when the fighting halted.
There was no observation of an Armistice Day ceremony in the front line trenches and Maginot fortifications yesterday, no lessening of fire and no armistice. There was only scattered patrol action because the German high command has not yet decided where to attack and how.
9I spent Armistice Day with a regiment of that famous special corps which mans the Maginot Line," writes Mr. Ralph Heinzen, the United Press correspondent. "For the. second time, General Gamelin, Commander-in-Chief of the French and Allied forces, ordered one unit of the defence system to be opened to Amerrican reporters. This unit was a busy anthill' amid one of the hottest corners of the Saar Valley. There was no Armistice Day relief behind and round this fortification yesterday. and the surface, troops are filling whole forests, planting mines, rails. digging. tank traps and trenches and stringing wire to double the force of this line if that should be necessary.
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