Two generals and a brass band comprised our reception committee in Kehl—across the River from Strasbourg—the only Rhine city which the Germans have evacuated. While correspondents and soldiers ate the regular soldiers' meal of beet stew, boiled potatoes and sauerkraut, the soldiers' mess band stood in the street playing request numbers with such gusto that the French must have wondered what was going on, The two-day tour of the upper Rhine front revealed that the Gexmans were keeping a keen vigil on the French lines from the powerful Siegfried defences, but the quietness of the front permitted them to keep their good humour while standing watch—United Press, Artillery Active in Saar Region larin "atis, Mar. 17.
Activity of artillery on both sides in the region of the Saar is announced in the latest French communique. "Our outposts repulsed enemy patrols west of the Vosges," the statement says. "There was some firing alo the Rhine."—Reuter. ore
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