WESTERN FRONT
ENEMY PLANES CONCENTRATE
MANY BOMBERS
(By Telegraph—Press Association — Co ■■ >-Icht.| (Received September 21, 12.50 p.m.)
LONDON, September 20. , ,
An official French communique says that the whole Western Front is calm except for enemy artillery activity at Blies.
A military writer, "Commandant B," says that the Germans, after evacuating civilians from Aix-la« Chapelle, are bringing troops to the town and concentrating large numbers of planes, which are reported to include 1500 to 1800 bombers, in the surrounding districts.
A new German attack was beaten off on the Western Front yesterday. ' A French communique states: "A local enemy attack east of Blies was repulsed. There was enemy aviation activity in the same region."
An earlier attack withered whenfaced with heavy fire by machine-gun* and anti-tank guns, supported by aheavy artillery barrage.
It was announced officially in Berlin ' that the German Commander-in-Chief, : General yon Brauchitsch, visited the Rhineland front lines on Tuesday and discussed the operations against the', French with the commanders.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 71, 21 September 1939, Page 11
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161WESTERN FRONT Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 71, 21 September 1939, Page 11
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