66 A N enemy surprise raid was repulsed East of the Moselle River," this morning's General Staff communique on operations last night announced. "One of our patrols captured two German non-commissioned officers," the communique added. With the return of fine weather, operations both on land and in the air increased in intensity yesterday. Clashes between scouting and patrol elements were frequent, while both Allied and German planes effected reconnaissance flights, The most important encounter on land was that announced in the official communique, A German raiding party attacked a French outpost situated ina few houses at the entrance of a village. The Germans were well-equipped with hand-grenades.
While they did succeed in setting fire to one of the buildings occupied by the French, the Germans were forced to withdraw by the withering fire of the French.
Further East, German patrols clashed at two different points with French detachments, the latter gaining the upper hand on both occasions. One of these encounters, the Germans In An Advanced Post on the Western
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