London, Oct. 27.
RENCH military observers are impressed by reports from well-informed forei sources regarding various German troop concentrations. Ge! any, it is said, has concentrated 32 divisions round Pirmasens, eighteen the Netherlands Frontier, twelve facing Switzerland, six between Basle and Lake Constance, and nine between Lake Constance an id the junction of the Italian and Swiss frontiers.
The concentrations of nine divisions between Lake Constance and the junction of the Italian and Swiss frontiers apparently suggests that if Germany decides to invade Switzer-Jand with a view to outflanking the Maginot Line through the Jura Mountains, she will simultaneously launch an offensive in the upper Rhine valley, through eastern Switzerland.
The Allied High Command in no way rejects the possibility of a German invasion of Holland to gai aircraft and submarine base With reference to the German plans for blockading Great Britain, naval observers are not wholly convinced that there are more raiders abroad than the German "'pocket-battleship" Deutschland, Some emphasize that the Emden is in no way equipped for long distance raiding.
They say there is no convincing evidence that other battleships or cruisers have yot joined the Deutschland, whose speed of 26 knots is ferior to that of modern cruisers. It is generally believed that the Deutsch-Jand escaped via the Norwegian coast to the Arctic circle, when a German fect was sighted and chased on October 8 The return of the Deulsehland, it is pointed out, will not be so easy.
The claim made yesterday by the German High Command, that an Allied attack to regain certain heights: on the Western Front was repulsed by German artillery and machine-gun fire, was authoritatively denied. in Paris today. No such attack, it is stated. was launched.—Reuter. indications of a big offensive being Amsterdam, Oct, 26.
'A swift German descent on Dutch ports with armadas of fighting planes Jand ships and then an offensive Jacross the Channel at and into Great Britain were declared today to be the possible course of action shortly to be adopted by the German High Command.
Important concentrations of Ger-Jman troops and incessant trame in wat materials was reliably reported Jalong the German North Sea coast from Emden. Trame in materials Iwas said to be coming through Bro-men and the hinterland of the north-
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