The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-10
NAZI ATTACKS
ARE REFUSED
Continued from, rage -

of patrol raids. The Germans
rushed the French lines, throwing
grenades and the French drove
them back with the same weapons
The Germans did not try to &c
through the French lines, but
seemed bent on taking prisoners.
A driving rain kept the French
air force grounded but several Ger
man reconnaissance planes appear
ed over the French lines.
Frances war communique No. "a
this morning read:
Enemy patrols were constantly
active, especially east and west OF
the Saar. There was reciprocal ar
tillery action in the same regions"
The Germans had begun heavy
artillery fire along the whole front
yesterday for the first time. The fire
was directed not only at the French
front lines, as heretofore, but at the
Maginot fortresses far back of the
advanced French positions. 1t APP
peared to be coming mostly from
guns massed on the west bank OF
the Saar, but was supported by the
big guns of the Siegfried line deep
in the hills beyond.
Many German Shells
Thousands of German shells were
hurled at the French yesterday all
the way from the Moselle river to
the Rhine. Heretofore, the Germans
never had fired more than about
100 shells day.
Dispatches reaching here from
neutral countries said that Hitler
had caucused Nazi leaders on Oct
2 and as a result of their advice
would go to the western front this
week to take personal charge OF
operations. After a short stay there
it was said, he will designate Her
mann Goering, Nazi No. 2, to repre-
sent him, and Goering, then out
raking Colleen. Walther Won Bau-
chitsch, commander -chief of the
army, would order a ''blitzkrieg" =
lightning war-like that wageo
against Poland, discarding the Ger
man general staff's plan of opera
tons which had been worked out
after years study and kept up to
date as the French and German
fertilization systems progressed.
Nazi Bombers Licked
Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct. 10
CUP - Four German war planes
which landed in Denmark and Nor
way were souvenirs today Of what
appeared to have been a test OF
strength between the British grand
fleet and German warships and
bombing planes trying to break the
British blockade.
One German plane made forced
landing last night on the Danish
Island of Fanoe, on the North Sea
coast. A second lander at Nyminde-
bag, above Fanoe Island, and was
burned by its crew. A third, describ-
ed as a training plane which lost
It's way, landed on the Danish Is
land of Laaland, in the Baltic of
the German coast. A fourth landed
near Egersund, on the southwest
coast of Norway near the junction
of the North Sea and the Skager
Rak, the entrance to the Baltic.
A fifth German plane was driven
across the German border by Dam
ish anti-aircraft gunners who sight
ed it over Apenrade, Denmark, near
the frontier.
Heavy Firing Yesterday
Heavy firing had been heard of
the Norwegian coast all day yester-
day.
The British admiralty announced
that there had been repeated en-
gagements between British cruisers
and destroyers and German bomb
ing planes. The day before, it was
said, a German naval squadron was
sighted southwest Of Norway. Brit
ish warships tried to engage 1t, the
admiralty said, but darkness came
and the German ships escaped. II
was said that there were no British
casualties and that no British ship
had been struck.
The Donaldson Atlantic line an
nounced that liz persons-93 pas
sengers, including 80 Americans
and 10 crew members - were now
officially listed as missing as the
result Of the torpeoding of the liner
Athena in the opening days of the
war. Fifty Britons, seven Poles and
four Germans, and two people of no
official nationality, were among the
missing.