Paris, Nov, 20, French troops repulsed new Gor-man attacks along the Saar sector of the Western Front yesterday, the French High Command annovineed last night, French machine-quaners @rove back German patrols which attempted to pierce French outposts in several sectors near the Mostelle River, The Germans abandoned six dead from one patrol ambushed by French machine-gunners in the) Blies region, The French High Command) said the Rhine River oro sixty centimenters on Saturday, foreing French us well as German, troops to evacuate several pillboxes.
Floods impede Operations Pavis, Nov. 20.
While complete calm continues to prevail on the West Front, a new: element appears, namely floods, due to unceasing rains in the past weeks.
The Rhine and its tributaries, which two months auto rose to a threatening level, are again s0 swollen as to, interrupt all military activity. The rise in the Rhine is less felt the French side as on the German side, for the left bank is higher than the right bank. The Germans have been compelled to build dykes but they also had to evacuate some their advanced positions. In Lorraine, the Blies and Saar rivers and all amaher streams are threatening 10 flood the neighbouring districts.
German scouting raids have become! less numerous and were more can tions yelserday, while the only activily on the front took place south fof Saarbruecken in the shape of an artillery duel between German and French heavy field guns—Havas.
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