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CLASH OF TROOPS EPIDEMIC AMONG SOLDIERS BITING COLD EXPERIENCED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, February 14 The biting cold has slackened activity from the Moselle to the Swiss frontier. The Germans opened gunfire north of Bitche at midnight, and subsequently began a five-hour artillery preparation against the French outposts east of the Moselle, after which fifty infantry attacked under the protection of a box barrage, in the hope of isolating the position, but a retaliatory barrage crushed the effect. Both sides conducted reconnaissance flights. A message from Eupen (Belgium) states that influenza is sweeping the Siegfried Line. Several German watering-places are filled with sick soldiers, two thousand of whom are under treatment at a single Westphalian spa for pneumonia, pleurisy and rheumatism. PARIS, February 14 A communique states: ‘‘An enemy raid failed west of the Saar. A captured German ship was taken to a French port.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21040, 16 February 1940, Page 5
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