FRENCH REPORT LOCAL ADVANCES
Preliminary Action Against Siegfried Line RESISTANCE ENCOUNTERED AT ALL POINTS VIOLENT CANNONADE IN MOSELLE REGION (By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) BRUSSELS, September (>. Today’s French Army communique, recording local advances against the Siegfried Line and observations elsewhere, indicates activity on the Franco-German frontier. Newspaper correspondents in Luxembourg and at Basle report a heavy artillery duel between the Maginot and Siegfried fortifications. It was especially violent in the Moselle region, lasting all night.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1939, Page 8
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