i'rance, Reich Allies and Germans Take Advantage of Weather Paris, Feb. 24.
"There was nothing to report from the front last night," said this mornings official General Staff communique.
Activity yesterday was limited to the usual patrol and scouting operations, while artillery duels took place in some sectors. Aerial activity was most important in fine weather. British machines made successful observation flights to Heligoland, Wilhelmshaven, northern Germany, Vienna and Prague.
Over the North Sea, British planes attacked two German submarines and it is believed that they were sunk.
The French air force made flights over German territory, and_ many photographs were taken, German planes flew in squadrons over Upper Alsace, along the Swiss border, while others penetrated deep into French territory, reaching the outskirts of the Paris region. No less than twenty times were German planes seen flying towards the British coast during the day.—Havas. had mobilized its armed forces, the Rumanian correspondent of "Il Messaggero" reported, Private information from Ankara Berlin Fumes Over Bitter Comment by Small Neutral Nations on U-Boats claimed that rumours of Turkish mobilization on the Russo-Turkish frontier were "true to facts."
Attempts by the United Press to establish, telephonic communications from Budapest to Istanbul, Belgrade, Sofia and also Amsterdam were unsuccessful for what telephone operators termed "technical troubles." Telephone lines were damaged, the United Press was told, and the interruption was "not because of political or military tension."
Political circles in Sofa also discounted rumors of mobilization in Turkey, saying there "had been no cause for uifusual tension recently."—United Press.
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