GERMAN DEFENCES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 September 1939, Page 6

GERMAN DEFENCES

PORTIONS SPLINTERED BY BOMBARDMENT " GERMAN COUNTER ATTACKS HURLED BACK. DECIMATION OF RETREATING TROOPS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) PARIS. September 26. It is officially announced that heavy artillery fire splintered portions of the German fortifications in the Rhineland. The civilian evacuation east of Saarbrucken has been speeded up and a new Nazi counter-attack has been repulsed. It' is unofficially stated that two German attacks in the Wissembourg and Pirmasens sectors were hurled back with “decimation of the retreating Germans.” ARMIES FROM POLAND TRANSFERRED TO WESTERN FRONT. (Received This Day. 1.5 p.m.) PARIS, September 26. It is officially stated that the French, for the first time, have made contact with the principal field pillboxes and trenches around Hornbach, where the frontier most closely approaches the Siegfried Line. A radio message announces that a large part of the German armies which participated in the Polish campaign have been transferred to the West Front and are concentrating at Aachen and in the Black Forest. FRENCH PLANES FLIGHT OVER RHINE. (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, September 26. The Associated Press of America Basle correspondent says that a squadron of twenty warplanes, believed to be French, flew over the Rhine, drawing fire from German anti-aircraft batteries. SWISS PRECAUTIONS ADDITIONAL DEFENSIVE WORKS. (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, September 26. “The Times” Geneva correspondent states that it is officially announced that Switzerland is building defences in the interior, supplementing the existing double line of fortifications.