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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY, 27, 1940:

HITLER'S STRATEGY AS SEEN BY AN EXPERT

London, To-day. A BROAD ANALYSIS OF GERMAN strategy and tactics in the Low Countries' invasion was given yesterday by Captain Cyril Falls, military cor- respondent of “The Times." Summarising briefly what had happened, Captain Falls said that French and British troops moved into Belgium when the invasion began and took over the southern part of the main Belgian line of defence, which runs along the Meuse from the French frontier to Namur and then across to Antwerp.

The Germans launched a tremend- ous attack on the Meuse from Dinant | southwards, crushing and isolating French troops at Valenciennes; the |British right flank was uncovered.

That gap has not yet been closed. To-day, it extends from south-east of Arras to Amiens, and through it Ger- man mechanised troops in great strength have proceeded through to the

coast.

Now, what, in broad outlines, was the German aim and how did they set

about it?

Strategic Aim

Personally, Captain Falls continued, he thought that the enemy expected the Allies to march into Belgium and he did not try to stop it. He carried out some bombing, but not enough to | interrupt the march.

The strategio alm seemed to be to separate the British and. Belgian troops and certain French units from the main French armies, Just as the Germans had already separated the Belgians and the Dutch.

The other part of the aim was to reach the Channel-ports.

Captain Falls said that he was not particularly criticising our . own strategy, for our move was inevitable if we were to be loyal to our prin- ciples.

Strategy, although it sounds more scientific than tactics, is really the hand-maid of tactics. The German plan would have been rash to the point of craziness if it was not also supported by the power of the assist- |ing weapons and the system of co-or-

dinating them.

Bombers' Task

These were low-flying 'planes, and especially dive-bombing, and tanks and, though so far to a lesser extent than in Holland, parachute-troops.

The bombers have been raised to the work of heavy artillery, which they cannot hope to keep up, and have been used to blast a way through which the tanke can pro-

ceed. Perhaps we should have realised this after Poland; we did realise It, in fact, but we did not realise its terrific scale,

That is the black side of the pic- ture.

At the same time, troops get get used to any form of surprise attack. Then, too, the great difficulty in long-range operations is to keep up the impetus.

We have had a tactical defeat and ́suffered a strategic reverse-but the campaign is not over. In fact, it has just reached the critical stage. Our hopes still lie in the fighting quali- ties of our land, sea and air troops and the skill and wisdom of General Weygand. We shall not be conquered even if we lose this phase of the cam- paign.-Reuter..

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