FLANK ATTACK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1939, Page 6

FLANK ATTACK

GERMANS RUSHING UP REINFORCEMENTS. (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 7. The Associated Press of America correspondent in Paris says a communique states that German reinforcements are being rushed to the northern flank of the Western Front, where an increasing French attack has carried fighting to the fringes of the Saar basin. GERMAN DEFENCES REPORTED REINFORCEMENT. (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) PARIS, September 7A communique states that the German front between the Rhine and the Moselle is being reinforced. RESERVED OCCUPATIONS NEW SCHEDULE IN BRITAIN. ORGANISING NATION’S RESOURCES. (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 7. A new schedule of reserved occupations is aimed at securing armed forces and civil defence services, and to obtain the tradesmen required with a minimum disturbance in the maintenance of the ordinary life of the nation. Editorial staffs of newspapers and news agencies are included in the revised schedule, which also applies to ■women, but any woman is free to undertake nursing and first air Services. Men employed in reserved occupations are free to undertake part-time national service.