Paris, Oct, 20.
A short communique issued here today on military operations stated there was "very reduced activity uring the night."
"There were encounters between reconnaissance parties at different points." said the communique issued yesterday. At sea, it adds, patrol boats picked up bodies of German officers' and sailors belonging to a sunken submarine.
Information received in Paris confirms reports that the Germans are concentrating troops on the North Sea coast between Bremen and Hamburg, according to a radio announcement today.
German troops concentrations on the Swiss frontier continue, according to well-informed French ciseles. The Swiss military authorities are ro-ported to have taken precautionary London, Oct. 29, Two German airmen were killed Jand two were made prisoners-of-war today when German planes flew over Scotland and the Orkneys, off the northern Scottish coast, In retaliation against the R.A. reconnaissance fights carried "out over southern Germany last night, While all the British aircraft returned safely to their bases from their missions, one German plane was shot down in its Might over Britain, In the craft were found two men dead, one injured Jand the unhurt pilot. The two lotte were taken to Edinburgh, The German craft, according to the Air Ministry, was forced down by Royal Air Force planes east. of Dalkeith this morning, Reports from eye-witnesses of the Aght that pre-Jpeded the defeat of the German alr-men were replete with details of an Jencounter packed with thrills, for the swastilea-emblazoned plane put up stout fight against the British planes, Thrilling Fight Described Shortly after the alarm was given, the German raider appeared, to be immediately pursued by RAP. fight Jers. "As soon as the German pilot saw himself followed, he began manjecuvering for position, secking some lway out, Some 600 spectators who had disregarded the hooting air raid alarm then watched an aerial battle before only found described in novels or shown on film screens, The German pilot looped the loop. loaned, spiralled and executed. all the other stunts he knew, His. pur= jsuers followed him in every one of his" manceuvres but interspersing, lightning turns and twists with bursts Jor machine-gun fire, Finally, while the spectators watched breathlessly, the German invader was shot in a vital spot and began screaming. Mose-dive to the earth. People on {the ground waited for the fatal crash but at the last minute the pilot min laged to straighten out his crat While the British planes cirelee Jabove, the German pilot brought his plane' to the ground right way and even tried 10 take off again, racing his machine over the bumpy ground, but a stone wall ended his Borne, Oct. 28.
"German concentrations on our northern frontier give no cause for special anxiety," declares an official statement issued here today. Reports that the Germans have massed twelve [divisions in this area, it adds, do not correspond in any way with the true
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