Warsaw, Sept. 16.
German artillery shelled the central district of Warsaw today, the Defence Committee announced in a communlque. German attacks against. the Wola Suburbs were repulsed, and one German tank was destroyed while the attackers suffered heavy losses. The Committee added that 100 German soldiers were made prisoners-of-war together witha German colonel, Stubbornly fighting off all German attacks, Polish troops on all. war fronts ' held their." positions. today despite German numerical superiority, the official Polish P.A-T. news agency Paris, Sept, 17.
467 ATE yesterday evening two enemy" attacks on our front lines, one east of the Moselle Valley and the other toward the centre of the front between.the Saar and the Vosges mountains were both repulsed," an official French communique announced today.
"Latest information confirms that several German units recalled from Poland have arrived on the Western Front," the communique said.
Reviewing the present military situation, the official bulletin stated that "French troops have so far progressed twenty kilometres from the Maginot Line on the whole front between' the Rhine and the Moselle, carrying hostilities entirely into German territory, French territory remains unviolated. On the other hand, the enemy is concentrating new forces and will presumably launch 'a new series of operations rendered possible. by developments. in the situation in the east."
'M. Charles Morice, writing in "Lo Petit Parisien," stated today that "the igh Command is methodically continuing its manceuvre and the troops entrusted with the task of carrying It out are doing so with such success that It may be stressed after eleven days of fighting that the soldiers of 1090 are as courageous as, those of 1914-1918. The Germans attempted, no doubt to compensate for the ground they lost in the Moselle Valley, to damage our positions in the valley. of
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