NOTHING TO REPORT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 36, 12 February 1940, Page 8

NOTHING TO REPORT

THE WESTERN FRONT

(Received February 12, 11 a.m.)

LONDON, February 11

The latest Paris and Berlin communiques say that there is nothing to report.

The German High Command claims that the air force continued reconnaissance activity over Britain on February 10, and says that one British patrol vessel was sunk and that all the aeroplanes returned safely.

The German radio said: "Our machine-gun fire silenced Allied loudspeakers on the Western Front because of their primitive and insulting nature. The French answered our fire, resulting in a lively exchange, but the loudspeakers remained silent."

! President Lebrun visited the British itroops and was enthusiastically cheered. He expressed admiration of the fine [standard of the troops.

(Daventry Broadcast.)

LONDON, Sunday Night,

The Nazis are as anxious to prevent German soldiers on the Western Front from listening to news from the outside world as they are to keep German people in the dark. The French discovered that German soldiers were ignorant of political events as well as of the military situation, and the French authorities broadcast by loud-speakers to German soldiers across the Rhine. They broadcast precise factual information, and when the loud-speakers were first turned on, German soldiers were seen coming out to listen. On the second occasion they were seen to be forced back by their officers. On the third occasion yesterday machine-guns opened fire, and the German news agency says that the lively exchanges which developed completely drowned the loud-speakers.