Paris, Sept. 26.
an attempt to smash reported mass German troop concentra:
tions brought from the Polish to the Western Front, French artillery units hurled shells across the Rhine near the Swiss border today, according to reports reaching here. With the Germans also reported to be massed across from the Belgian border near Aachen,; the French military authorities, according to neutral observers here, consider that the Reich might attempt a double movement through neutral countries against France.
The French General Staff, it is stated, has reported lat German artillery units continue to shell French positions southeast of the German town of Zweibrucken, now threatened by the French. A communique issued here today again reports aerial fights between French and German machines.
Heavy artillery fire swept the' German hill defences along the front between the Rhine and the Moselle, across France's north-eastern border. The German forces in the south are said to be concentrating below the Black Forest, between Loerrach and Schaffhouse, opposite the French frontier.
This, according to independent om servers, would indicate a possible German attempt to cross the Rhine to the north of Basle through Switzet Jand. High "French military. circles are said to hold the opinion that this manauvre would be dangerous for the Germans, as the detachments of French troops guarding the area near Belfort are perhaps the the entire Maginot Line "Alter weeks of comparative inactive ty, French artillery has moved up Ins' batteries and French troops took the initiative in strengthening their positions all along the front line.
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