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Show T Prisoners Carry Own Wounded 1 f .... v i V . f ' " '-' K X - -TV.-' , . - I 1 FRENCH CAPTIVES OF GERMANS ON WEST FRONT Picture, passed by nail censors, shows poilus hearing enmr.Jt n stretcher I French Say Patrols Drive Mile and Half in Nazi Line PARIS, Jan. 4 (INS) Penetration by French patroli one and half miles into the German lines in the Saar area of the western front yesterday was revealed by military circles in Paris today. Th French patrols, these authorities au-thorities said, brought back information infor-mation of extremely heavy German troop concentrations behind nazl front lines In the Saar district. In addition It was disclosed, the French ambushed a German patrol near the Saar liver, taking several prisoners. Another French patrol In the Vosges mountain region surrounded two German patroli of 50 men, Inflicting In-flicting serious losses on the Germans Ger-mans In a battle In which not even a single Frenchman waa wounded. Allied and German air forces kept busy making photographic reconnaissance recon-naissance flights. Th French made four such excursions ex-cursions deep over western Germany. Ger-many. Allied pursuit craft shot down a German Messerschmldt fighting plane and a Dornler bomber recon-noitering recon-noitering over eastern France. Other German plan were stated to hav flown over northeastern Franca by way of Belgium. |