THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1946.
Three Occasions When Eisenhower Differed
(Continued From Page 2)
'sible to confirm him in istic and civil problems to give his belief.
entire attention to the battle,
"Lack of infantry was the moat importart cause of the cnomy's defeat. in Normandy, and hi failure to remedy this wenknɗis was 'due priniarily to the success of the Allied threat bevelled against the Pas de Спінін
The German 16th | Army, which, if committed to
possibly have defeated us by sheer weight of numbers; re- mained inoperative threation: the critical period of the cam- paign.
"The next higher commander above the army group commander, by whatever came te in, called, such as supreme or Theatre Com mander, necessarily controls broad air and atrategy and commanda nen forces, and therefore is the only one in position to bring addi- tional strength
to bent
to In fluence the action.
"When the ground front in such
The immediate ujin was to be the amashing of the enemy west of the Rhine in order to re- duce to a minimum the forces which would be available to oppos our crossing of the river and the Once WO subsequent advance had crossed the Rhine there were two main avenues by which we the heart of could advance into Germany and defeat such enemy forces were left to oppose a. The first of these was from Rabr and into the North Gar- close battle supervision by a commander,
man plain the second from the single atmy
Mainz-Karlsruhe area and thence, then this officer is also known as the ground commander of the en-north-east through Frankfurt - tire force. But when there is wards Kassel, more than one army group com
CATALINA TRAGEDY
London, July 7.
Three pausengera word killed, but others together with the crew of elght were saved, when a Cataltra fly- Norwegian ing-bout of the Air Force sank today in Alta- ford, south of Hammarfest in Northern Norway.
The plane hit a floating ob- jeet when alighting water-Router.
Black-lists To Go
Washington, July 7. The United States and Britain wl]]. abnounce next weeks - the abolition of wartime black 'Hista of foreign Arms suspected of enemy connections,
The announcement, to be made simultaneously in London and
nilow Washington; will un tho
British and American firms to resume trado contacts with some 5,000 individuals and companies atil on the British and American black lists.
"Deletions from the flats in the
considerably to those
was finally quidated. The total ng of prisoners reached the in 30 General Officers."
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"This continuing
failure by an
group
the enemy to form an armare mander in a single theatre the reserve constitutes the outstanul cannot logically be an overall ing feature of
commander" the campaign "ground
separate Supreme during June and July; to it we from the Theatre or owe the Huceerful establish- Commander." ment of our lodgement area, ... Every time An attempt was made to replace armour in the Ine with a newly arrived in- fantry division a fresh attack accessitated
basty committal
us Then and later theso arguments wcem incontrovertible,
Seine Advance Bridgeheads Wanted QUESTION 5-During the ad- the Seing why did vance from re
Eisenhower decide to put the full weight of his blow behind 21 Army Group's thrust to the north east at the expense of the Third inited States Army thrust east ward?
"So long as the pressure con- tinued and so long as the threat to the Pas de Calais proved effective in preventing the move of infantry reinforcements from there across the Soine, the enemy had no alternative but to stand on the defensive and to see the 7th Army and Panzer West slowly bleed to group death.
The first move from
|
The former axis of advance offered the quickest means of denying to the Germans the vital Ruhr industries. An advance on the south axis from Mainz to- wards Kassel would also secure, to industrial zone. and դէ would therefore also be likely to afford us an opportunity of des- troying considerable enemy for
**Once Kassel had been reached the Allies could either renent of
encirclement to complete the the Ruhr, or north-east towards от eastward towards Berlin. Leipzig.
Two Thrusts
Chief Of Staff's Doubts lle gives his reasons as follows: ...It was our plan to at-
When the Combined Chief tuck north-enstword in the gren-l
doubts as to test possible drength, Tais irce-of Star expressed
ability to maintain
two tion had been chosen for a variety our of renons. First, the great balk thrusts-north of the Ruhr and in area-with of the German Army was located the Mainz-Frankfort
was the the forces at my disposal, it was there. Secondly, there
Thus the responsible comman- ders wore Gen. Eisenhower and Fold-Marshal Montgomery,
Centre Thrust British "Misgivings” QUESTION .Did the British!
note
and
snya
It
British Reds On Palestine
The British
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Chiefs of staff and Gen. Eiron- however held divergent views on the plan of operation to follow the It is pointed out here that the envelopment of the Ruhr?
abolition does not mean, however, Yes, we may infer so.
that all foreign, conipantes which The decision to concentrate have appeared on the lists will first upon a major thrust in the be freed of wartime trade restric
totions. contro nevertheless,
riso
Gen.
The British Treasury is expect Flignliqwer. The desirability of ed to withheld Treasury licences ent of Opening supply lines Evidence of eveiny ownerom - the U-boat war to an for trade with some companica.
the German
north through
prevent some companies ports, of of acquiring the use of Swedish gaining their frozen assets in the
United States.-Reuter. shipping, of relieving the Dutch, and "હા" occupying Denmark and Norway,
the political chological effects of an end pay
early entry into Berlin were all advanced as reasons in favour of an operation in the 21st-Army Group sector.
"Our reply pointed out that we
not Jus had
Turgutten the important advantages to be gained by the
that was at issus. Our plan for United Nations, declaring tha! for the north-eastward attack was
elear to the Rhine before embark-
an advance in the centre was it British action in Palestino con- ing on a major offensive to the intended to facilitate such a our imperative need for the large
stituted a threat to wo enst of that river,
world peace. port of Antwerp, absolutely essen-
Given
conquest which, I was convinced situation, however, could more easily be achieved Party's political bureau called on
stalement Issued tin to as logistically. Fourthly,
sued by tho where we could operate without old more in Bo- we wanted the airlichis
for the security of our flankere Gerniany was cul in two.
Britain and the United States to "It was vital that gium,
ahould I felt confident of our ability
"open their gates to these dis- for each effort intressed people" while the Finally, und most important, I
concentrate *urn rather than allow our power way
ground was prepared for a free and in- weight felt that during the inte summer to carry out the plans
projects nt the undertake too many
Arabs. avenue for an advance into Ger the same time striking in the under
once. Berlin, I was now cer- routh and retaining flexibility to
The statement said it was not ihat,
thin. no longer represented 1. in the interests of Britain, the raid in 1942) convinced the through rapidity of
of major im- tion so required.
Jow
or the Arabs "that British enemy that any attempted in both the Siegfried Line and the
portance." Together "with their sux-
forces
should be led into This, it seems, was at least the fusion could, or should, bu deshing. River might be crossed and be- royed on the beaches them-strong bridgehends established
su, on a single ho concentrate third occasion when Ejsenhower onial war in Palestine," add-i drive in the ferred his own opinion to that ing "measures against innocent I selves, and the defences subsefore the enemy recovered
north, the Combined Chiefs of advanced by the British Chiefs of, men and women cannot but aggra This fielently to make a definite stand Stall submitted for my consideru quently constructed
vate an already serious situation. Staff. Two previous occasions a proposal by the British have touched on in Question 4 and Britain,
bitterness" wae feit in Principle were larking in depth.
The assumption of controvertible, despite that, in the rou
Again the argument seems in- tion of Staff that a
Chiefa
ingle
the statement said, "that COMMERCIAL UNION Labour Government should be command in France by Field- controvertible dean tetration was ground commander for the whole opinion are inevitable.
be Marshal Erwin Rommel during not wholly to succeed and that the front- north of Luxembourg
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the 15th Army area westward greet desirability of capturing the pointed out that such, indeed, conquest of North Germany. today demanded that the Pales-raised:-
Aine bomb aren. A third Tenson would be the case if we did not was merely a question of timing line problem be submitted to the i
over the Seine coincide with the bunching of The United States First Army attack on July 25 (the break-out).
Beach Defence Rommel's Blunder Finally there was Rommel's disastrous conception of bench
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Telly
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early autumn montba the diented, putting the chirady in surr
Rhine offered the best into the northern thrust but to be dispersed by attempting to dependent Palestine of Jews and
ut
The rald (the Dieppe many, and it seemed ploitation, I switch the main effort if the situn-military objective
h
In the Arnhem area."
that
7. In war such divergencies of
1
the winter of 1943-4 was mark- Germans were to be given respil. appointed to exercise, under me./ many ways to solve every opera the feet of Hitler and to strike a ed by vigorons extension and the consolidate their Siegfried de-operational control and co-ording tional problem, all of which may blow against the Jewish people."
intensification of the defensive work already in progres, and; thie-continued up to the very day our landings took place.
Rommel's confidence in his mines and concrete was, indeed, to have disastrous re- Bults for the German Army.. When the benches were forced the enemy lost the initiative and never subsequently succeed ed in regaining The hand
fences.
tion of all
ground
be right.
forces. involved in the offensive which was to take
The National Redoubt QUESTION 6-Were 21 Army
Enemy's "Only Chance" to clear the "s across the Rhine. Group operations Scheldt Estuary unduly delayed, the assumption that all the re-tional Redoubt anything more "This suggestion was based on QUESTION 10.--Was the Na- and unduly protracted. contrary mainder of the front would re-than a figment of war correspond to The Supreme Commander's
main on the defe
defensive, contrary ents' imagination? wishes?
Certainly not. To make the to my plans. I I pointed out that.
much more. After the Very earliest possible use of the Port under
these
plans, the Rular Allied crossing of the Rhine. marked the of Antwerp was
logical division of fundamental
and that Field of prolonging
(the enemy's) only chance feature of Montgomery's original Command zones
Marshal
Montgomery would-be length of plan. Gen. Eisenhower gives there
charge of all the forces there the called National Redoubt in facts:
of von Rundstedt endeavouring "My decision to concentrate our.
apparent!
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la remedy the errors of his efforts on this attempt (the Arn- und United States Ninth Army to hold the immensely strong na-nde recently indicated that much Tel. No. 27502;
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offensive to capture the for considerable period.
4 chemy could consolidate campaign, when
the en probably continue. had re- fences along the Rhine
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of the and Dunkirk where und in making the port
his troops had been effected and Germany striking force an ryserve; but as our main supply base. Commanders of the United States were still under siege, in the was cut in two...
base. First and Ninth Armics-initia Channel Ielaris, in the it was too late."
I took the full
Frisian responsibility for
"Prior to the Allied advance QUESTION 4-When the ad- this, and I believe that the pos- contrary to
Live that went beyond, or even lalands, in Norway, and behind
Eisenhower's
Across Central Germany, evidence vance from the Seine began onsible and actual results warranted Montgomery's intention?
and the code of Holland."ment of ment was preparing to
had been received that the Govern- Later, after the Sept. 1, 1944, why did Eisen- the calculated risk involved.
evacuate Certainly not. Gen. Eisenhower the Ruhr. Gen Elsenhower decid- Berlin Had our hower dispense with single
forces not pushed
and move southwards. ultimately perhaps to north
Berchtes- and east to hold the line gives the facts: battle-line commander respon
Before operations deer
that an offensive first in gaden in the National Redoubt... sible to him for the whole front of the Mans and Wani well north
interior could the centre would prove most effec-An impassable barrier had been of Antwerp, the part itself would into the German in order to exercise hle com.
have
in constant danger not safely be undertaken, the Allies tive. With Germany once cut in drawn across the country and the been mund through two or mure only from મ blow possibly syn-had. following the Ruhe cressings, two (by a junction with the Red way to the Redoubt was cut, aff. NOTICE IS HEREBY at his Sales Rooms, Basement, Army Group Commanders inchronised with the later blow in to complete the encirclement of
Army) the
enemy, remaining in In consequence, Hitler and hin | GIVEN that the ORDINARY French Bank Building, stend?
Eifel, but from the Ruhr... With this
portion
more Intimate henchmen stayed enen. Eisenhower gives his rea-attacks mehed m Independant armoury in Allied hands and the economically be eliminated.
on in Y EARLY MEETING of Berlin from Holland.".
Russians in control of its Silesian When the central
SHAREHOLDERS will be held thrust had "Extending some 240 miles in in the Board Room of Messrs. Aghting under most couneermany's power of achieved its object, pho, principal nedoubt comprised tho
and 80 miles in depth, the Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., the diverging lines of operation! cleared Sons 21 Army Group destroyed oven were her armies to Baltic and the cleping out of the half of Austrin, with, smali poren Monday, 15th; July, 1946 at! sol-up was necessary due to Victor
to wage war would be task was to be an advares to the Beveland and Wal-
14-16 Pedder Street, Hongkong ↑ " and the need for having a
be preserved infact
whole northern area from Kiel tions of Germany to, the north NOON for the purpose of con charen during late October and mander on each of
determined therefore, before) and Luebeck westward by 21 that to the south. mountainous firming the appointment of the each of the main fronts | early November. Gen. Eisenhower
The offensive Army Group.
whole capable of handling, with a reason.
any further pays a just tribute to the gallan launching any able degree of independence, the try of the Naval, Army and Air castward into Germany, to carry
"After the requirements for and thus unsuitable for large-scale Board of Directors and can day-to-day operations in each see Forces engaged. The Scheldt had out the policy originally envisaged these northern operations had altborne operations, while the sideration of the Directora" tor. These operations were to be then to be swept. The first ships of enveloping the Ruhr by con- been met, we should be able to at nto it followed narrow Report and Balance Sheet for guided by directives lasted from unloaded in Antwerp on Nov. 26, verging thrusts from the two direct 6 Army Group, with per- valleys which could casily be the period to 31st. March, 1946. my headquarters.
ink-haps the Third & Valley and into bridgeheads at Wesel and Frank-
southwardheid static situation in the cen furt.... Accordingly 21st Army down the Danube
by determined defenders. 1945 Campaign
By Order of the Board of Group and 12th Army Group were the Redoubt., therefore in- tre (after the Junction with
with the to the possibilities,
instructed to
Directora. Different Views
concentrate on formed Marshal Stalin
of my Red
my on the Elba) now per- Army on termined by geography, of clone
achieving a Junction in the Kassol- general plan to strike first in the mitted the use of the
the Third
Army Centre and subsequently to effect QUESTION -Did Gen. Eisen- Paderborn' area. battlefield supervision. Battlefield command
upwards hower and the Combined Chiefs of Da April 1 the two armies a like-up with his forces in for this turpase (of effecting a through the division, corps, army Staff hold a divergent view about United States First Army and Regensburg-Linz aren with a view sinns down the Danube Valloy) with the Rus- farther function United States Ninth Army, the to neutralising the Redoubt. commanders. the 1945 plan of campaign?"
British Chiefs of latter Yes. The
then under 21st Army "On April
while the 6th Army Group de Hongkong, 4th, July, 1946. which had probed eastward from the Mulde, to the problem of the Redoubt far- net. elements of the Russian 58th
ther south and west Guards Division in the Torgau sive had sub-divided the enemy's "Even when the Danube, offen- area on the Dibe. The junction of forces in the south, it might still
be possible far the Redoubt hold out, and
Third Army the WAB therefore instructed. In addi tion to its principal thrust, to seize Salzburg, while the Seventh Army. under the 6th Army Group was
Ground forces, should, or. dinarily, he commanded according frequently --
and
extends
army group
1944.
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This last commander is the highest certainly, would havo pre-Group), made contact pear Lipp. 273rd Regiment Patrols of the voted the whole of its attention
ground commander whó, has a lo-
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The "Post" described, as he Hong Kong, 8th July, 1946, to advance along the axis. Wuerzing Incredibly short-sighted" burg-Munich, penetrate the moun the statement signed by 76 Co-
jains, and subsequently to occupy, gressmen opposing the British instigation of Zionist clemente the fortress area."
It was not until the function of loan bocause of Britain's at the likely result would be a the United States Fifth Army Litude on the Palestino question. breakdown of Anglo-American from Italy with the United The "Post" which has strong negotiations concerning Pales States Seventh Army at Vipitenoly, supported Jewish aspirations time.
́à äelf-respecting no-
on May after the defeat of the in Palestine, said that failure to "For enerky forces in Italy that "the pass the loan would not help totion," the "Fost" continued, "Is danger of aneremy laat stand in solve the Palestine problem, bound to resent législative prve the Redoubs Anally
Faure tactics and without?.the.
"On the contrary, if the loan, Britain would be in a much The Supreme Commander's House to witandid Britieli. Joss davourable position to CENT (crodit as a rebuke to Bevin and out a liberalPaibstite poller.
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