'A group of picked French volun~ tears penetrated some miles behind the German ines yesterday and captured a. number of German prisoners, including two office The raid was carried out in the wooded district of the Vosges.
The French parly encountered a German detachment and a short but lively spell of tree-to-tree fighting. ensued. Otherwise the French front thas been calm, with little air activ-
Survivors of the City of Kobe said that two days before the vessel was sunk German planes bombed and strafed it with machine-gun fire, The Danish steamship Jytte, 1,977 tons, sank in the North Sea after it was believed to have struck a mine.
was thought apparent that the Nazi iacties are to mix torpedoing with mining, depending on the success of Allied. counter measures.
Intensification of the Germans latest weapon, ait bombing and strafing of small surface craft, was announced yesterday when the' fishing trawler Etruria was sunk and the Active was seriously damaged. Two other trawlfs, the Tnverneill and Fort Rose were attacked, but escaped damage, it was reported.
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