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French Capture Ranges of Fill-boxes ARTILLERY HAMMERING ENEMY COMMUNICATIONS INTENSE ACTIVITY IN FOREST REGION (By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.5 pan.) NEW YORK, September 7. A message from Paris states that artillery duels and localised operations are developing rapidly on the Franco-German front, mainly in the twelve-mile-wide zone between the permanent fortifications. There is most intense activity in the Carlsbrnnn Forest, between - Saarlautern and Saarbrucken. The French are reported to have captured several ranges of pill-boxes and their artillery is hammering at the SaarbruckenSaarlautern Road and railway. An American Press Basle correspondent says French heavy artillery hammered the main force in Germany’s Siegfried Line from Lauterbourg to the Saar frontier and hundreds of thousands of French troops have moved into position under the protection of the Maginot Line.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1939, Page 6
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