Reinforcements Diverted to Western Front Rich Warndt Forest Areas Almost All Taken Paris, Sept. 10, lacked on many points of the front] the official French General Staff communique ing.
"The situation remained unchanged during the night, There was normal activity in our reconnoitring flights. Last night the official statement said "the enemy is resisting along the whole front, Various local counter-attacks by the enemy are reported, A brilliant attack by one of our divisions permitted us to occupy an important piece of ground.
The enemy's artillery is in action, ° Duri the day our air reconnaissance was pursued in spite of intervention by the enemy's pursuit. planes."
Competent authorities here stress that military operations on the Western front between the Rhine and the Moselle, which have already resulted in the almost total occupation of the Warndt Forest by French troops, cannot be considered a large-scale offend sive, They are merely contacts with the enemy but on a larger scale and more serious than before.
While mobilization is progressing and troops are being grouped behind the Maginot Lino, France's vanguard units are advancing cautiously on the other side of the frontier and are feeling out the outposts of the German fortified line. In a war of fortifications, the present operations, therefore, cannot be taken as a vast offensive, Although German counter-attacks were launched yesterday, advancing French troops, remained on their previously-conquerred positions last hight, a semicoficial comment re~ Teased after the official French communique, revealed this morning. During the night, it added, the French forces fortified their advanced posltions and strongly reinforced their seommunieation: lines with the rear, The contrasting features of the Eastern and Western fronts were pointed out in the comment: while in the Bast the Germans are using strong mechanized units which rush along the main communication lines of Poland, and the Poles are relying considerably on flanking cavalry attacks, In the West the war is fought mainly by Infantry units with the ce-operation of artillery and sapper detachments.
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