Paris, Sept. 10.
Fighting was increasingly bitier on the Western Front today as Germany sent new divisions into the rich Saar Gistriet in an attempt to halt the swift French sdvanee toward the Selgtried Lin Reports reaching hero at 1.90 am. today (930 am. Sunday, Shanghol Time) said the Germans were resist-Ing energetically in all sectors with heaviest fighting centred on a 1,000- foot wooded hill dominating the Saar Valley. between the Warndt Forest and Saarbrucken, This strategic height was being pounded by German guns from the Siegfried Line and the' German General Staff appeared determined not to let the French to build bridge across the Saar River, French forces were reported to have "mopped up" 22 abandoned German villages in Saar frontier forests, French troops, closely following vanguards of tanks, were reported to have encountered' numerous mine elds which form the outer protection of the Siegfried Line which at this point is only twelve miles from the frontier. Bridge-head mines were fixed to explode on contact with French tanks. French soldiers also found comfortable, inviting shelters walling them, but found these also had been mined.
German pursuit planes saw their first action on this front In opposing the frst French reconnaissance fights fo take pictures of German troops movements and concentrations behind the Slegtried Line.
Reports in Paris and dispatches from London yesterday said Germany and Russia had a secret treaty to divide Poland along the lines of the 1914] frontlers—United Press,
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