Evening star., 1939-10-09
DaIadier 10 Answer
Killers Peace Offer
In Talk Tomorrow
Germans Are Reported
Taking Offensive on ,
Western Front
BY the Associated Press,

PARIS, Oct. 9.-The war ministry
announced Premier Daladier had
decided to broadcast a speech to
the Nation tomorrow as the result
of Adolf Hitler's peace speech last
Friday.
NJ Daladier's address will be
broadcast on a nation wide French
nookup at 8 pm. q pm. E. S. t..
Before announcement of the
speech M. Daladier conferred with
Generalissimo Maurice Gustave
Gamelin. chief of the British
French land forces.
Germans Take Offensive.
French military sources said Ger
man forces had taken the offensive
in limited areas along the western
front.
The action, these sources said,
apparently was designed to take
prisoners to question for information
as to French military strength and
plans. German attacks were re-
ported near Saarlouis, Saarbruecken
and along the Med River.
Units of the French tank corps
were given credit for turning back
German attempts to retake cap
tured positions inside Germany.
German artillery fire and in
creased patrol skirmishes reported
from Saarbruecken west of Luxen-
burg today led French military OBJ
servers to predict a possible big
scale Nazi offensive soon against
that section OF the Maginot Line.
Fighting Near Saarbreucken. !.
Observers said their predictions
of an early Nazi offensive were
strengthened by the letup OF heavy
rains in the fighting zone and re-
ports that German veterans of the
Polish invasion were being sta
toned in great numbers in the
Saarland facing the French line.
A French comrnunique today said
fighting was concentrated in two
sectors, one south of Saarbreucken,
which has been under constantly in
creasing French pressure. and an
other about six miles west Of Saar-
bruecken in the lower Med River
valley.
The French earlier had asserted
their troops repulsed a series of Ger
man surprise attacks" east of the
Moselle River.
With the clearing weather, French
planes were said to have made OBJ
servation trips over the Western
German cities of Cologne and Bonn,
which are on the Rhine, opposite
Germany's Belgian and Neither
lands frontiers. One French scout
ing plane failed to return to its
base, 1t was announced.
rs Communists Arrested.
In Paris, meanwhile, the war
council announced the arrest yes
terday of 26 of 72 former Com
munist deputies on charges of vio-
lating the decree dissolving the
Communist party and forbidding
Communist propaganda.
The arrests, it was said, were
based on a letter sent to Edouard
Herriot, president of the Chamber
OF Deputies, urging convocation OF
Parliament for debate of "immedi-
ate peace"
Sixteen OF the deputies were ar
rested in Paris. The others, taken
into custody in the provinces, are
being sent to the capital.
Reply With Cannon"
French newspapers continued to
reject Adolf Hitler's peace" offers
There is only one reply to Hitler,
and that is with cannon" declared
LIE Figaro.
Russia's move into Baltic affairs
and reports that the Soviet Army
planned to build a "Maginot" line
facing Germany along the frontier
laid down in conquered Poland by
the two countries were held up as
examples of distrust underlying the
German-Russian agreement.