FURTHER ADVANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 72, 22 September 1939, Page 7

FURTHER ADVANCE

FRENCH FORCES

GREATER AIR ACTIVITY

(Received September 22, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 21. . Aerial activity on the Western Front is increasing noticeably, although the operations of the land forces are still confined to skirmishing tactics and heavy artillery exchanges. ■ Military dispatches reaching Paris report that British and French planes successfully engaged enemy planes in dog-fights and shot down several. French infantry, in a series of sharp local engagements, advanced their lines closer to Saarbrucken and Zweibrucken, and are reported to have reached the outskirts of the latter city, which is one of the most strongly-for-tified outposts of the Siegfried Line, i Raiding parties made contact with German patrols along a front of 100 miles from the Luxembourg frontier to the south-east. The mobilisation of 5,300,000 French) reserves has been completed and they have been added to the 700,000 regulars who are ready for action. A French decree creates a Ministry of Armaments under the direction of the Minister of National Defence, who is responsible for all supplies'of armaments, chemicals, and explosives, and is in control of all factories. The German newspaper "Ruhr Arbeiter" says that Herr Hitler will shortly go to the Western Front and "then a great clash will begin."