Paris, Oct. 21.
French artillery pounded the German hill positions between Moselle and the frontier village of Perl, in an effort to widen no-man's land and prevent the German forces from consolidating their newly gained posi tiers on the border triangle, according to reports reaching here from the front last night. It was reported that the Germans sought to rush motor convoys as far as Perl in the wake of the Frerch retreat, but French fire smashed the tracks to bits and prevented the reinforcement of the positions.
Despite a driving rain, patrols were active on both sides of the Front. Aerial activity was limited, as the German air force was grounded by boggy fields. The British Royal Air Force, however, constructed a metal runway to enable their planes to take off.
Despite German claims, the French insisted they were still holding all their important gains in the Warndt Forest and the wooded hills southwest and south-east of Saarbruecken. German gains on a 19-mile {ron ix miles deep, they said, between the Saar River and Hornbach-Bityhe Road were of little strategic or tactical importance, they declared.—United Press.
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