FRENCH ADVANCE RESUMED

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22823, 23 September 1939, Page 13

FRENCH ADVANCE RESUMED

i Troops on Outskirts ■,■ - ' ) Of Zweibrucken J|ORE AIR ACTIVITY REPORTED' IliHl IED PBEB3 ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) ’ (Received September 22, 7 p.m.) LONDON, September. 21. Aerial activity, ..pn the Western .Front ,is noticeably increasing, although the operations of lapd forces .still are confined to skirmishing ■tactics and heavy artillery exchanges. ... Military dispatches reaching Paris report that British and French aeroplanes successfully engaged enemy aeroplanes in dog fights and ‘Shot down several. £ The “Paris Spir” quotes a report from Zurich saying that Captain von Richthofen, ■ who was /phot down and killed in an air battle oh the Western Front, was a son of ■ the Great War ace. / French infantry, in a series of /sharp local engagements, advanced ■their lines closer to Saarbrucken and Zweibrucken. They are reported to ■have reached the outskirts of Zweibrucken, which is one of the most /strongly fortified Siegfried outposts. 'i - Raiding parties made contact with German patrols along a 100-mile ■line from the Luxemburg frontier , to the south-east. I Intense artillery fire continued |along the Luxemburg border to•day.’ Belgian sources, continue to resport German concentrations at /Aachen. The mobilisation of 5,300,000 French reservists has ' been completed. In addition,'7oo,ooo regulars are ready for action. ? ‘A French official communique /states that the day was generally /quiet and uneventful. There was fsome enemy artillery activity south of Saarbrucken. “In spite of bad weather and anti-aircraft fire, we /carried out a number of reconnaissance flights.” II 1 The Paris correspondent of “The ■Times” recounts that the Germans fare using the old tricks employed in {the Hindenburg Line in their, retreats on the Western -Front. Mines under steel exIpldde when the helmets are picked /up. Others detonate, when the door--handles of abandoned cottages are .turned. | The Germans buried a French {officer, killed during the attack, and ■erected a tomb and laid a wreath. {Then they exploded a mine when the French, after counter-attacking, reached the grave and knelt helmetjess to pay homage to their comrade. s ' \ " The French are gradually clearing Up the*mdden traps. “ RIVAL SETS OF I GANGSTERS” MR CHURCHILL’S VIEW OF SOVIET PACT ■ - NEW YORK, (September 21. ; The First Lord of the Admiralty .(Mr Winston Churchill) has written an artic'e for “Collier’s Magazine” called ‘‘The Soviet-Nazi Pact.” | “The pact stripped by a singleJtroke Russian Communism and |Tazi anti-Communism of t.heir whole fiieme, their, credentials and their lieans of appealing to the mind Ind the spirit of men,” he istates.' t “InsteacT of two powerful ,and, to sertain types of mind, captivating fihilosophies, we have a couple of flits of rival gangsters joining forces, feßopling their luck; and trying to ifcoot their way' but with any loot P&ey can carry through the G-men BK c ivilisation.”