The Archive · 1940

Air Raid Alarm in France

Paris, Apr. 7.

Air raid sirens were sounded terday "afternoon in north-western France. The alleelear signal was given half an hour later, The western front was quiet on Saturday, states a communique issued by the French Army headquarters.

The only incident in the past 24 hours on the Western Front was the capture of a German prisoner from reconnoitring patrol, which approached too near a Frond post west of the Vosges, according to a French we wounded German airmen were found after lying with a dead com-anion for four days in the middle of wood behind the French tines. They. were found near the wreckage Dornier 17 which was shot down last Monday. Several French soldiers ere Killed or wounded ina German raid, it was reported yesterday. One of the wounded died Tater, Fifteen thousand German soldiers, casualties from the western front, are hospitals in Bohemia the majority with frozen legs, many of which had fo be amputated, states a message from the German frontier, "Damp concrete of the Siegfried line during Intense cold was the reason for the ceasuallies, the message says—Reuter.

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