GERMAN COMMUNIQUE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 29, 14 November 1939, Page 5

GERMAN COMMUNIQUE.

CAPTURE OF PRISONERS. - ■; 7 j '• GAINS THE AIR CLAIMED.' (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) PARIS, Novemberf 13. Low clouds reduced the fighting activities to a minimus. It is reported from Berlin that the High,Command states: “We repulsed fresh-attempts .to gain the heights spnthfwest/.of Pgrmasens. We took an officer and; 24 men prisoners.” 9 The Official News Agency reports that 28 Germans took 50 -Frenchmen prisoner during an engagement on the Western Front. is-claimed "that 17 German aeroplanes haye_ been .lost on the West Front oh'Friday rand Saturday, compared with 16 British ;and 64 French, including three balloons.

THE FRENCH COMMUNIQUE. “USUAL PATROL ACTIVITY.” (Received This .Day, 11.50 a.m.) PARIS, November 13. The night 1 communique states that a certain number of enemy aircraft flew over-North-Eastern France' lasfc night. Tliere was the usiial patrol activity, especially .east, .of-the. Saar. GERMAN INFANTRY ATTACKS. LOCAL ATTEMPTS REPULSED. * ** „ .... .f .. F f • . LONDON, November 12. -;-Oit;tho; Western Front German infantry is still trying to gain ground, and last niglit several raids were made east of the Saar, again without success. ! A French official communique states: “Locally some' attemps to gain ground by the enemy .wove repulsed during the day.” The Brussels correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain states that the German frontier has been closed between Aachen and Eupen. Communication is maintained with Eupen and Aachen by a detour.