PATROLS ACTIVE DURING WEEK-END.

Auckland Star, Issue 18, 22 January 1940, Page 8

PATROLS ACTIVE DURING WEEK-END.

TWO-MILE FORAY. Attack On French Outpost Repulsed. COLD SPELL CONTINUES. Un If o<l Pn-ss Association.— Copyright. (lfcoolv«Hl 2 p.m.) LONDON, January 21. There i< hravv snow on the Western Front, ill I temperatures have risen vljghtly, -mys a from Pnri.s. I" ri'iii'h piitnds were iuiU"Uiillv active in Ihi> week end, particularly in the Hlii , - nii'ii, wliiM'e they penetrated enemy territory tn n depth of two miles. fierninn detarhtnenta under rover o! a box liiiiriijfn raided a French outpost. French artillery quickly intervened and In id down a heavy curtain of fire. The defenders threw liaek The nermann with lijilit mnehitie-guns, inflicting heavy disunities. A lost fJcrman s«f)ldier wandered into the French trenches. I'rencli 'planes twice reconnoitered over Southern (iermany, while a German war phi no flew over Eastern France. It is officially stated in Berlin that nil leave for German troops at the Front and in homo garrisons has been restricted owing to transport difficulties duo to the cold.