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Metz Center Of Vast Iron Field Threatened Fortress
Paris reports offensive operations aimed at Metz, a major German base on the Moselle with extensive fortifications. Metz sits near Lorraine iron and coal fields, a strategic hub whose fall could disrupt German war production and sever rail routes west of Laon toward the Belgian coast.
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Metz
Associated Press
Paris
France
Germany
Mets
Moselle
Seille
Lorraine
Rhine
Bassin de Briey
Briey
Alsace-Lorraine
Belgium
Luxemburg
Pont-a-Mousson
Frankfort
Strassburg
Huneseler
de Sammy
Kronprinz
Amaville
Liege
Laon