WESTERN FRONT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 77, 1 April 1940, Page 7

WESTERN FRONT.

CLASHES REPORTED.

Brief But Violent Artillery

Duels.

NAZI PRISONEES TAKEN.

(Received noon.)

LONDON, March 31

Two attacks against French outposts were repulsed with some GerJMns killed and some taken prisoner, *ays a Paris message. The Berlin New 6 Agency claims that *? German patrol captured six Prisoners and another captures a machine-gun in heavy fighting in which Ue enemy lost ten killed and a number *ounded. German losses were elight. Mobile guns of heavy calibre were. Prominent in violent artillery duels in if »°sges and eastward of the Saar. lae tactics of both the French and the. wmans are to quietly move guns into wourable positions, launch a fierce but wiM attack, and then hastily withdraw oeiore the enemy are able to fix the Position of the gune. The Germans attempted a number of ""nor infantry raids, but withdrew with losses.

A number of British militiamen •"gaged night patrols in Xo Man's Land. an earlier official communique issued si** 8 said tbat R °y al Air Force "gater patrols yesterday* engaged strong onnations of enemy aeroplanes which *M crossed the lines near Metz. They OVe back the. enemy machines to their •*n territory and shot down two Mes•erschmitte in fl am es.

The French successfully laid an •"bush in the region of the Saar. The •Demyl letft several dead on the ground. I'rench night communique says: inere were local encounters in the ™g«on of the Nied. The enemy suffered *®e casualties and we took prisoners."