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FRENCH CROSS-FIRE RESULTS IN ANTI-TANK DEFENCES
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Special To The "Telegraph"
PARIS, SEPT. 12 (UP).—THE FRENCH ARMY'S WAR COMMUNIQUE NO. 18 IS ANOTHER LACONIC DO- CUMENT.
"PROGRESS IS BEING MADE ON THE SAME FRONT AS YESTERDAY, DESPITE THE STRONG RE- ACTION OF ENEMY ARTILLERY," IT SAYS.
Behind this communique, however, is a story of the heaviest fighting yet recorded on the Western Front-of German infantry mowed down in countless numbers be- tween the cross-fire of the impregnable Maginot Line-of the piercing of the Siegfried Line.
German Attacks Falter
But Polish Army Is In Danger
BY HAROLD PETERS
"United Press" War Correspondent
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
As the Poles held the Germans in their tracks on the whole Eastern Front without a single German gain to-day, the French were seriously menacing the Siegfried by consistent penetra- tions into No Man's Land on the entire front from the Moselle to the Rhine rivers on three separate fronts-the Moselle Valley, the Saar and the Vosges Mountains.
UNDER SIEGFRIED SHADOW
GERMANS
The French have held all their gains in the wilds of AROUND THE EMPIRE the Vosges sector, where a general advance has been
made to the shadow of the Siegfried Line.
Desperate counter-attacks are being launched by: the Nazi Command in an effort to remove the French
BEHIND THE GERMAN threat to the so-called "impregnable" German fortifica- FRONT NEAR RADOM, Sept. 12 (UP). The German foggestions. are estimated between twelve tol
The Germans choose the 25th-Anniversary-of-the first- fifteen thousand casualties since Battle of the Marne for their chief counter-attack. the war began.
The greatest losses have been AMAZING FEROCITY
sustained in the last two days' heavy
fighting in the triple barrelled drives
on Radom, and the Sand and Dug
The French, imbued with the spirit of Marshal Rivers, according to calculations in Joffre, turned with amazing ferocity on the Germans as The German official estimates for they attempted to cross No Man's Land, the German the first week of the war, taken by right wing taking # terrible battering from Maginot
the field.
percentage, worked out to about;
1,500 to 2,000 dead, but since the first Line cross-firing artillery in the Saar-Moselle sector. week there has been comparatively į little resistance.
Another luconic French com- munique reported that un- Big Battles Begin Now that the big battles have interrupted fighting on a 12-mile begun, with the heavy fighting on sector between the Saar and the Radom and the San River, far heavier casualties are expected.
All through the territory in which
I travelled this morning, t notfeed Increased activity of airplanes, which
Blies Rivera had resulted in the French attackers slicing off an- other German salient.
The area between Saarbrucken
are taking off and soon coming back and Zweibrucken is for more loads of bomby.
now
in
French hands, with the French
More troops are being hurried up spearhead apparently menacing!
into the lines around Radom.
It is estimated that five or six Sulzbach, directly north
Polish
ore engaged
divisions
north of Lodz
to And their way out.
In Sarreguemines.
Pasen.
It is reported that they have been
of
CHOPPED TO PIECES The German General Staff has driven back into the packet and are thrown its best Regular Army divi- temporarily prevented from breaking sions into the fight in an effort to out and attempting to join the Polish stem the French advance. army around Warsaw, according to
the impression in the field to-day.
NEWS FLASHES
Jews Volunteer For
Service With Allies
JERUSALEM, Sept. 12 (Reuter). Forty-five thousand adult male and female Jews registered in the first two days of a campaign organised by the Jewish Agency and the National Council of Volunteer Service for local defence and the auxiliary services of the British Army.
Canadian Wheat
A cable received yesterday by LONDON, Sept. 12 (Reuter).
the High Commissioner for
Sailing Ship
Stretching for miles along the Western Front and pro- viding security against tank and Infantry, this barrage of short steal posts, protected by barbed-wire entanglements and by mines, is typical of the defences along the Franco-German frontier.
THE DUKE
GOES HOME
LONDON, Sept. 12. (Reu- tor).The Duke and Duchass of Windsor have arrived in England from France.
*In December, 1937, King Edward VIII renounced his throne and left the country to marry the lady who could not be accepted as Britain's quoon. Speculation was rifé as to how long the popular Duko's exilo would last.
Now the major event of a war has permitted the Duko's return with little ostentation, to take his place with many other Englishmen hastening home, at the side of those
thedaid London, states that Sunk By Mine or Democracy against
Canadian wheat crop is ex- pected to be the largest since 1928 and the fourth largest on record.
A first estimate pineos the crop si
Slovaks Will 440.000.000 bushels.
Not Fight
Finnish Vessel is
Latest Victim
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 12 (Reuter),| The Finnish sailing ship Olive [Bank struck a mine and sank north
Rhodesians Rospond LONDON, Sept. 12 Reuter) of Jutland. Southern Rhodesia will help Britain in war said her Minister for Defence
Refuse To Entrain yesterday,
For Poland
PARIS, Sept. 12 (Reuter).
Seven of the crew of 21 have been rescued.
Germany.
CENSORSHIP
AGITATION GROWING
Obstacles Hinder Newspapers
Oloer and specialists would be allowed to volunteer for service over-
U-Boat And U.S. Ship sen, but troops would be kept in
LONDON, Sept. 12 (Reuter). WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (Router)To-day's Radesia in case there is a compaignAfter being informed that the British troops and planes are In Africa. If necessary, the Govern-
revelation that
ment would have no hesitation in American freighter Wacosta had been
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The Germans, however, have been A Slovak battalion has refused literally chopped to pieces It is estimated that between three intensity of the French fire. French officers and men declaring that
by the to entrain for the Polish-front, conscripting for service pvorsca. [stopped by a German submarine on already in France, while being and
Saturday and searched for contra-Widely welcomed by the public, Rre divisions ate engaged Headquarters have followed up its around Radom
Nairobį Firo advantage by throwing hundreds of they would not fight Poles, ac-
band. Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of has served to emphasise the tanks into the battlo, providing a cording to a "Havas"
LONDON, Sept. 12 (Reuter), The State, announced that a Marked Slowing Down
statement serious problems still confront- screen for the advancing Infantry.
message Secretariat Buildings at Nairobi, the would be issued, as soon as all the ing British from Bratislava.
newspapers and LONDON, Sept. 12 (Reuter)-A {Strengthening Occupied Positions
capital of Kenya, were burned down facts had been assembled, on the agencies as a result of consor- on Monday night. All documents in marked slowing down of the German advance is
Paris, Sept. 12, (Reuter)-During have been made. Flights by Slovak secret war papers, were destroyed.
The message says several arrests the building with the exception of United States' attitude towards the ship and the' activities · of the noted by all military
British blockade, the German coun- new Ministry of Information, observers. Some are of the opinion the night the French troops limited airmen have been forbidden. that the German lines of communica-themselves to strengthening the posi
No indication of incendiarism haster-blockade and the stopping of
Soon after its inception the Minis- been found yet. flon may be in danger.
American vessels on the high senz. tions in German territory occupied LONDON, Sept. 12 (Router).--
try was widely taken to task for Attention is drawn to the fact that at the junction of the Saar and Blics Malls to Britain from Japan will be
considerably delaying two items of the German advance has averaged 20 the day before yesterday, according routed vin the United States, whence
important news, namely, the sinking miles a day, which is a tremendous to a semi-official survey of milltary they will be taken to their destination
of the Athenia and' the facts about speed even for mechanised sections operations.
by Amertean and other neutral ships.
the widespread air raid ofarm last and is tiring for troops.
Wednesday,
While it is true that the operations
progress over
*
REICH CALLS UP ITS
Such an advance also creates the were important and were marked WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (Reuter, GREAT WAR VETERANS
a large-Mr. Henry Morgenthait,
risk of running out of suppiles, by definite especially for tanks and heavy arm front, they do not yet involve the of the Treasury, announces that the
the bulk of the French troops massed tripartile monetary agreement be
are
oured Vehicles, which greediest consumers of petrol.
*The Poles thus have an opportunity to dla in. A temporary deadlock may ́ensue, but all observers warn against
optimism.
The Poles: position in the so-called
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AMSTERDAM, Sept. 12 (Reuter)-Bien aged 47 and 48, many Germany, according to Berlin correspondents.
In this region but only reconnaissance tween Britain, France and the United of them Great War-veterans, have been called to the colours in elements supported by an advance States continues and the trane. guard of Infantry,
rates for sterling
It may be noted that the Siegfried Line In this region is only a dozen the new rates as "competitive de- Mr. Morgenthau does not regard kilometres to the north though the valuation" in view of the emergency.
line front at but Britain and France are respect PLEASE Turn
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Fosen pocket wastward of Warsaw. German fortified log Page 2
the latter have had as military training and the Government is These men are preferred to younger men because many of anxious-to-avoid-upsetting the economic life by removing the most useful man from Industry.
Dilly Dallying
Fresh cause for anxiety was given
publication the announcement that the Ministry first approved for to newspaper editors last night when
British troops were now in France and then less than, an hour later, withdrew sanction of the newa..
nounbement that the Ministry did,
Then at 2.45 am. came the an
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Supreme War Council Meets Momentous Talks
On French Soil
LONDON, Sept. 12 (Reuter). It-is-officially announced that a meeting of the Supreme War Council was held to-day Frnch soll,
on
Those who attended included the British Premier, Mr. Neville Cham- berlain, the Minister for the Co- Ordination of Defence, Lord Chat- field, the French Premier, M. Edouard Daladier, and, General Gamelin, head of the French Army.
The object of the meeting was to enable direct and personal exchange of views on the present situation and on the measures to be taken in the immediate future.
The meeting fully confirmed the firm resolve of Britain and France to devote their entire strength to wag- ing the conflict forced on them and to give all possible assistance to Poland.
learned from authoritativo quarters that there was complete unanimity on the measures the two countries should take together.
It is
A Royal Air Force plane took the Premier and Lord Chaffield to France and back.
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