London, Oct. 22. "bron the first time since joining the British Expeditionary Force I have heard gunfire," writes Reuter's Special Correspondent with the British Expeditionary Force in France.
"I am writing from a front line where the British and French lines join," he says. "Away on the right is occasional gunfire, but ahead lies silence. You walk carefully coming to the front line along a road between bushes of barbed wire and deep pits with land mines. Near the front line a sudden rise in the ground shows a low, stream-lined fort with invisible guns pointing to the enemy's direction. Despite the distant muttering of guns, peasants are working stolidly in the fields."—Reuter.
Basle, Oct. 22.
Heavy detonations shook windows in Basle yesterday when a French bridge and dam across the Huningen Canal, eight miles to the north of this Swiss town, were blown up for strategic reasons. The canal at that point is about two miles west of and parallel to the Rhine, which forms the frontier to Germany.—United Press.
Paris, Oct. 22.
"Last night was moderately quiet on the front as a whole," reported ihe latest daily communique issued here on military operations.
A communique issued yesterday stated "the day had merely been marked by certain artillery action on both sides."—Reuter.
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