Paris, Oct. 31. Winter settled on the' war. front yesterday as snow flurries swept the Saar Valley and began piling drifts in the Vosges Mountains near the Swiss border. Members of the Allied Air corps reported sub-zero temperatures aloft, The Duke of Windsor, completing a tour of the regions where snow fell, visited the French line between ihe Moselle and Rhine Rivers and halted at Strasbourg while it was under the fire of German heavy guns.
Fighting, however, was reported at a minimum throughout the week-end as blizzards swept the front. Snow closed the Alpine passes to the Italian frontier, It was reported that German artillery fire, which had increased late last week, had subsided, leaving the front the quietest it has been in weeks. Most of the activity of the past 24 hours was centred north of the Saar and east of Saarbruecken, where French artillery repulsed Germans attempting to construct new advance post positions.—United Press, Japan Has Favourable
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