MARKED INCREASE RECALLED FROM HOLLAND WAR CORRESPONDENTS RETURNING HOME

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 256, 30 October 1939, Page 7

MARKED INCREASE

RECALLED FROM HOLLAND

WAR CORRESPONDENTS

RETURNING HOME

ENEMY ACTIVITY ON WESTERN FRONT TROOP CONCENTRATIONS ON NORTH SEA COAST [By Tekgraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received Oct. 29, 6.30 p.m. PARIS, Oct. 28. The official radio commentator, discussing the overnight communique that all was quiet on the entire front, declared that enemy activity had considerably increased since yesterday. Raids were increasing in intensity east of Moselle and in the Forbach and Saarque mines regions, mostly by groups of 100 men. The German artillery fire had become systematic. It was no longer localised but was generalised and directed on the entire front. The German general staff apparently was seeking information and attempting to dislocate our firmly-established positions. There was a heavy concentration of troops east from Bremen, also considerable activity inside Germany. “What all this portends, come what may, we are ready,’’ he added. “Eighty French divisions and the British Army are ready to meet all eventualities.” Another Paris message says that information here confirms that the Nazis are concentrating troops on the North Sea coast between Bremen and Hamburg. The Times says that neutrals arriving from Germany report that numbers of troops are concentrating on Welhelmshaven and Cuxhaven. A high authority considers that the German concentrations near the coast of the North Sea are not. alarming, and adds that such movements are frequent, nor should the cutting of telephone wires cause apprehension.

HERMAN COMMERCIAL REPRESENTATIVES Received Oct. 20, 6.30 p.m. PARIS, Oct. 28. A radio from Holland says that Herman firms have recalled all their representatives from Holland. FRENCH COMMUNIQUE (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Oct. 28. The evening French official communique says: “There have been encounters of scouting parties at different points of the front. At sea our patrol boats picked up the bodies of German officers and sailors belonging to a sunken submarine.” HITLER TO VISIT FRONT Received Oct. 29, 6.30 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 28. A message from Amsterdam states that Herr Hitler will visit the Western Front next week.

THE WESTERN FRONT Received Oct. 29, 6.45 p.m. PARIS, Oct. 28. A delegation of British Parliamentarians under Brigadier Spears, who is visiting the Western Front, arrived and received a welcome. Major-General Beith, head of the War Office public relations department, is conferring with general headquarters in order to facilitate the work of 25 British journalists, broadcasters and photographers and nine American and four French journalists. Major-General Beith’s arrival may herald the arrival of war correspondents from neutral countries.

OLDER MEN IN FRENCH ARMY. Received Oct. 29, 7.30 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 29. The Paris correspondent of Iho British United Press says the Government announced that older men serving, also those of any age with four or more children, may return home. This relieves 10,000 men from service, freeing the entire class of 1910, aged 49.