WESTERN FRONT

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 February 1940, Page 7

WESTERN FRONT

“LIVELY BATTLE” [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] (Recd. February 8, 1 p.m.) BERLIN, February 7. It it officially stated that a. patrol action east of the Moselle developed into a lively battle. One German was killed. FRENCH PATROLS ACTIVE PARIS, February 7. A number' of French patrols penetrated deeply into ’German territory, west of the Saar. The morning communique states there is nothing to report. SPY SHOT PARIS, February 7. Karl Roos, an Alsatian autonomist leader, convicted as a spy last October, was shot at dawn. COMFORTS FOR TROOPS. RUGBY, February 7. Sir Eric Phipps, lately British Ambassador in Paris, describing in a speech to journalists, the objects and work of the Anglo-French Solidarity Committee, said it was not easy for the people of Britain to imagine what mobilisation means to a country like France, where one-eighth of the total population was called away to serve in the Army. The Committee, he added, was _ set up in Paris at the end of 1939 to consolidate the work of the individual organisations" on both sides of the Channel,! so that overlapping of endeavour should .be avoided. Sir E, Phipps explained the main object of the Paris Committee was to assure comfort and entertainment of the British Expeditionary Force. The King and Queen were patrons of the London counterpart of the Committee, which decided the most effective assistance in helping’in various ways, the; families of French soldiers.