The Archive · 1939

Germans Attempt Ambushes

Paris, Oct. 25, The 103ra, communique, issued last night described Monday night as "calm" along the whole front with patrol and artillery activity in the western Saar region.

German patrols ambushed French troops at different points on the Westerù Front on Tuesday, while there was fierce fighting in the Warndt Forest where the Nezi forces staged an attack on a French outpost in an effort to recapture part of the territory taken by the French earlier in the war, according to the 102nd. French war communique issued last night, The German forces suddenly drove on one of the French outposts in the south-west corner of the Warndt Forest, during the day. A brief, but fierce fight ensued, and the Germans

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