Paris, Oct. 7, German forces along the Western Front began an intense counteroffensive coincident with Herr Hitler's Reichstag speech yesterday in a desperate effort to dislodge French troops from positions within artillery range of the Siegfried Line south-west of Saarbruecken, In @ succession of brief local attacks the Germans threw large forces against French outposts, centring their efforts on the south bank of the Saar River between Saarlois and Saarbruecken.
French troops resisted stubbornly es the German sought to silence French shelling of the Siegfried Line from Perus hill, the key to Saarlois. The Germans also attempted to regain Warndt Forest before the French could consolidate their newly won positions there.
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