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* Last year United Press reported that on the Western Front there were "no casualties on Christmas Day." In his recent book, I Saw France Fall, Captain René de Chambrun wrote of the Maginot Line, where he was stationed Dec. 25, 1939, that "for the first time since the beginning of the war, there was no firing along the battle front. A gentleman's agreement seemed to have been tacitly reached between both camps for Christmas celebration." The official Nazi news agency told Germany that "on all three Christmas days from the 24th to the 26th of December the Christmas holiday spirit of the German troops on the Western Front was repeatedly disturbed by enemy artillery fire."