Along the Maginot Line the Germans attacked a French advance post in the Saar sector, boxing it with artillery barrages and then advancing behind a hail of hand grenades. The French, however, repulsed the thrust.
'The' battle resumed by daybreak this morning. Enemy pressure firms especially "in the south and lower Somme where a slight retreat of our advance elements occurred. On the whole, we maintained our positions on the remainder of the front of attack," the official day communique said, With the Germans again pushing forward through the use of tanks, the French set up tanks traps and used anti-tank guns with deadly effect, re-sulling in the destruction of numerous German tanks during the night.
The German tanks had. earlier penetrated a mile deep. between French strongholds late on Wednesday, but the French closed in on the fadvanee units and disabled the tanks with withering fire. French tanks also sped into action and outwheeled the German machines in order 10 bring them within firing range and to dart in on the "blind" side of the Germans, French despatches said—United Press.
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