The Archive · 1940

Air Raid Alarm in France

Paris, Apr. 7.

Air raid sirens were sounded yesterday afternoon in north-western France. The all-clear signal was given half an hour later.

The western front was quiet on Saturday, states a communique issued by the French Army headquarters.

The only incident in the past 24 hours on the Western Front was the capture of a German prisoner from a reconnoitring patrol, which approached too near a French post west of the Vosges, according to a French communique.

Two wounded German airmen were found after lying with a dead companion for four days in the middle of wood behind the French lines, They were found near the wreckage of a in hospitals in Bohemia, the majority with frozen legs, many of which had to be amputated, states a message from the German frontier. Damp conerete of the Siegfried line during intense cold wes the reason for the casualties, the message says.—Reuter.

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