German West Front, Sept. 27.
Germany has massed' more than 1,000,000 men, Including first class units shifted from Poland, for what probably will prove to be a defensive war, the United Press correspondent earned today after touring 200 miles of fortifications of Germany's west wall, half of them facing the Beglion and Luxembourg borders. He noticed ample evidence that Chancellor Adolf Hitler has no intention at present of opening an offensive against the Allles-—United Press, Swiss Rye-Witness Report, Basle, Sept. 20.
Eye-witness accounts of an encounter between German anti-atreraft defence units and French planes on reconnaissance duty were given here today when observers. reported French flight over the Rhine.
"Just after 2 o'clock this afternoon," the accounts ran, "a squadipn of French planes, about 15 of them, appeared over the Rhine, obviously on reconnaissance flight over German troops near Basle. They were shelled immediately by anti-aircraft guns and Swiss onlookers. distinctly saw the small clouds of bursting shells. Many such clouds puffed out near one of the planes. The French craft swiftly disappeared northward"—Havas.
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