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|ON THE WESTERN. FRONT:

FIRST VISIT TO THE SAAR

By Our Special Correspondent on the French Front,

2

Edgar Ansel Mowrer

Lauterbach, Forest of Warndt, Germany, October

1939.

They brought in the two Germans feet first in a waggon covered with cloth. Soldiers and visiting newspa- A French permen gathered about. Ileutenant cautiously removed the cloth; there were two dead boys. I watched the face of Jules, the French private standing next to me. It seem- ed he could never get enough of the dead faces.

Gradually, in fifty skirmishes, pines.

are eating their way the French through the woods. One day they ad- next day vanced thirty yards, the three hundred. Here nothing at all, there a good distance. This fighting around Lauterbach is typical of the slow sort of inching forward which the French have been carrying out since the war began. It has brought "Two more victims of Adolf Hitler," them to the borders of Saarbruecken of Zwei- and to a point just south he said, and. looked away.

im- bruecken. It has brought the The taller and blonder of the two portant mining and industrial centre dead was a corporal,

This

"Like Hitler", said Jules, "its al- ways the wrong fellow who gets it."

Carefully the French examined the Germans' equipment. The dead men were wearing good, solid high leather boots and good, strong tunics.

The Nazis have was no "ersatz." skimmed the national milk pan the army, but Germany when Hitler took it over was still a good cow. The German machine guns were simple and solid machines with their metallic belts.

for

of St. Ingbert under the French artillery.

The total of German casualties from the beginning along the entire front is estimated at three thousand. The French are attacking, but they are using far more artillery than the Ger- mans and fring ten to twenty shells for each one received. It is unlikely that their losses are any heavier, if as heavy, as those of the Germans. Be- hind wooded hills the seventy-fives

are cracking like the beating of some north Further carpet. immense

oc-

The dead men had been two dis- mounted motorcycle points who had a battery of six-inch howitzers

casionally interposes its clatter of a been feeling their way forward

dump load. Occasionally the German through the thick forest when

guns over on the Saar return the fire, they met the French. They

The French but only occasionally. were true Germans and they fought wonder if the German Command is well. They had the easier side any-not waiting for the return of artillery way, it was their forest,

Collectively they had made its con- quest a horrible. task for the French. Driving along the road from Kreutz wald in French territory through the Forest of Warndt to German Lauter- bach our cars suddenly bumped over an imperfectly filled ditch. There, a few days ago, a hidden German mine had literally spattered a small French cavalry patrol on to the landscape. The woollen scarf of one men caught

from Poland.

They suspect it is also waiting for the result of Hitler's "Peace offensive," in the ever dimmer hope that France and Britain can be threatened

Hitler's accepting cajoled into

Here on the lines they "Peace." don't know very much what's going But if the on in Paris or London. French Army has its way this is a vain hope.

post

Recently the French censors-mlli- tary men sometimes seem to be lack- ing in imagination-stopped a card written by a group of French artillery men. It was addressed:

.

But

in the branch of a tree twenty feet above the road. It is hanging there now, swinging in the breeze. The German frontier guards' shelter on the exact frontier turned out to be a

"Adolf Hitler, Choucroutestrasse, solid concrete blockhouse. Per on Berchtesgaden, formerly Germany" the customs building on the outskirts Theage was couched in terms so of Lauterbach proved also to have

ripe would not print them. been fortified, but it was abandoned in substance they were telling Hitler without a fight The reason was that ex- it also contained a mine which ploded when the first French entered. In the thick forest glades it is the same. Hundreds of mines with invisible trigger-wires jeopardize the advance Then there is barbed wire every- ""We fire more in sorrow than in where. Felled logs, looking like na-anger," the Colonel commanding one ture, screen the machine gun nests,sector near here explained, "but we Prom each nest the Germans fire as intend to finish the job.": - Klong as they can, then, retreating be- re the French advance, retire to the fbet ambush..

Sometimes

his goosewas cooked anyway and he might just as well accept now the rope that this particular group of men had prepared for him. Here at the front I haven't met any Frenchman with another idea.

Slowly the Germans are coming to is not see that the peace offensive likely to work. The French invasion of Germany is not dangerus for the ma-Reich, not yet. But the slow oblitera-.

tion one after another of these hun- dreds of fortified lines can, if it is pushed far enough, become a German disaster.

they counter-attack terday morning the, French chine gunner Thomorel, of the Company, was going up to the line early, with the men carrying the coffee: Thomorel saw something moving.

"it

On this part of the front bordering

and

te on the. Saar

protecting: flank of Saarbruecken the French

a meeting

new type of opponent. The original de-...

were mere kids, some

now

"That's a funny cat," he said, must be à German.

"No," said the coffee carrier, "it's are just our cavalry men."

At which point some forty Germans fenders jumped from the shrubbery and rush-of them hastily taken from the Hitler ed on the little group of Frenchmen, Youth, Then came somewhat uncer- The latter ran shouting for aid. The tain reserve units. Now, in the For affair might have ended there, but est of Warndt, the French seem to be one German threw a hand grenade, facing trained regulars perhaps, part Splinters caught Thomorel in the but of that fifty or fifty-five crack tock-It hurt! This was more than divisions which are the kernel of the the Frenchman would stand. Thom | German Army! Forel wheeled and within five seconda ""They are about the tame age as Bald Jules, meaning from twenty his machine gun was spurting fire. He Dovered the retreat and then managed to thirty.

we,

to escape himself, leaving three dead "They fight and they hit

That was I can't tell you how gla Germans on the ground.

when we dri

Itwo dead come from an into the open"

ing engagement about two | them,” “

-here" among the

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