German anti-aircraft batteries repulsed French reconnaissance planes. attempting to fly over the German. lines, and Nazi land forees drove back reconnaissance patrols on the Western Front, a German High Command, communique said yesterday, Minor artillery activity was in progress all along the.front, the communique said.
The communique claimed that one French plane was brought down. In an air Battle near Godesberg, and a second was forced to land behind the German lines—United Press Four U.S. Destroyers to Accompany Iroquois Washington, Oct. 8.
Four Navy destroyers and a coast guard cutler neared the s. Iroquois {in the North Atlantic today io accom-pony her home in the face of German assertion that Great Britain Intends. fo cink the American-owned vessel before It reaches port. Government oMciais put little faith in the German statement.—United Press,
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