Heavy French serial bombings of German troops concentration points in the Soar Valley behing the Slegf Line were reported today to have slowed down German counter-action, [tending to disorganize troops and sup ply movements to the front. Fighting the Moselle region reached such violence during the German attack that French and Germen troops mode repeated bayonet charges on open farm lands, the fifteenth French communique said.
The German offensive in the Moselle sector gained several hundred metres of ground but the territory was of no Strategic or tactical importance and the French soon repulsed the attack. 'The Sierck region, where the Germans attacked, is one of the most heavily guarded' points of the Maginot Line commanding the triangular French, Luxemburg, and German borders.
In the Pirmasens sector the French concentrated intensely heavy shelling {o cut railroads, main highways and the communications junction Zwelbrucken, the communique added,
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