DARING RAIDS MADE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 108, 3 November 1939, Page 8

DARING RAIDS MADE

NAZI SHOCK TROOPS

DETERMINED EFFORTS

FRENCH GROUND

INVIOLATE

HEAVY ENEMY CASUALTIES

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received November 3, 2.20 p.m.) PARIS, November 2. The Germans threw shock troops into daring raids on the Western Front. Simultaneously long-range guns repeated the spasmodic shelling of French roads and villages behind the lines. The frontier town of Forbach, on the main road from Metz to Saarbrucken, was heavily shelled. The Germans made a determined attempt to pass the first French line of resistance, and succeeded at one or two points after concentrated efforts on a village about eleven miles in advance of the Maginot Line, but the latest dispatches emphasise that no German troops are on French soil. These developments have injected new vigour into the operations, and they are steadily gaining in momentum. After a respite from autumn storms, there was a considerable amount of patrol activity in the Moselle-Rhine sector. The Germans attack on a village in this quarter was repulsed. A company of infantry succeeded in reaching the French outposts west of Saarlouis. but was thrown back with heavy casualties. Similar attacks were launched in the Ohrenthal salient, in the lower Vosges region. The Germans are now using the shock troops from every battalion for raids. It is believed that a shock battalion is included in every Ger-1 man division.