Paris, Sept. 16.
communique issued' here today states that there was "great activity by the artillery of both sides during the day, and by units in contact along. the whole front. "The-enemy," it 18 fated, "is unceasingly sending up reinforcements opposite our lines. At Several points, he has abandoned and Gestroyed certain of his villages as he retired."
'A semi-official review of the war situation today says attackers and defenders of the Sicgtried positions fare at grips, disputing the forward Works of the German fortified line on the south bank of the Saar. A large-scale German counter-attack,. the review states, was made today on the rugged plateau which, lying between the river Nied and the Warndt Forest, dominates Saarlouis.
'Thus bit by bit successive communique on the war situation an-ounce more or less important en- No" gagements round the' Central Saar region. Fighting inthe lower valley of the Nied is taking place on the Fight bank of the stream which passes Bouzonville, and meanders in sharp curves across a plateau strewn with ttle woods. The eastern rim of this plateau dominates the valley of the Suer, forming a balcony from which the French artillery c: n batter Saar-louis, *he whole valley of the Saar, Feported tonight. In some sectors, the Poles carried off local successes, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. Hel and Kepaoxywska remained in Polish hands and all German attacks on Warsaw were' beaten off, Fierce battles raged in the Kutno, 'Lowlez and Skierniewice regions "and" the Germans were compelled to call for reinforcements: North of the' An-Hopel-Rawa - Ruska."line, German motorized Units drove thrdugh'to the River. Bug nest Klodzimierz; P.A.T. coneluded.—Havas. shelling from German artillery, batteries and the furious assaults of a score of diving, strafing German planes, German reinforcements attempted to dislodge the French "from the "newly conquered vital hills overlooking the Slegtried fortresses at Saarwellingen and Duppenweller, the dispatch continued.
Entrenched French machine guns met the German attack with a spray of fire, while the French artillery blasted the German tank. formations as they advanced. The German forces used massed formations, for the fi time on the Western Front, but ports said it only resulted in increase Tosses. After each wave of attackers the report. said, the French infantry charged with drawn bayonets and forced the Germans back, Continued German withdrawal confirmed failure of their artillery to halt the: French advance.
General Marie Gustave Gamelin, Gommander-in-Chief of the Allied forces in France, was reported to be very satisfied with the resistance of the French advance units to German fire, as well as.the action of his own big' guns, which were systematically silencing' the German artillery at_all major points of attack, forcing the defence force to retire, 5
One of the major immediate French objectives appeared to be the com~ plete possession of both the Saar River banks centred at Saarbrucker where the Germans are putting up the most stubborn resistance. The Get man troops here, it was reported, were already forced back to a point where their heavy industry mines Different Treatment in Britain of Aliens London, Sept, 16.
The attitude of present being adopted by the British Government towards "enemy aliens" is in marked contrast with that taken in 1014, when the policy was one of general internment, before the outbreak of the Great.war," it is stated, "no. organiza tion' for control of aliens existed, now and for some "years past, the entry of aliens and. their control. i Activities have been under close
"Another new factor is the admission, during this year, of many thousands of refugees, driven by persecution from what. are now enemy countries,"
"phose considerations have been taken into full account in the present polley, and apart from known agents and' sympathisers with the Nazi Regime, who were immediate ly segregated, the restrictions placed on- enemy aliens over sixteen, are confined to the necessity of reglsterting, and restricting their movements to an area within ye miles of their registered address.
'These enemy aliens " number about 50,000, of whom some 95,000 fre "rofigees.: Local "telbunalé are, hoviever, to be set up: forthivith; evaniine each' cape' individually, lid "to report on appropriate Uon."—Wireless: through Rent
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