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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 24, 1941:

5.5

"GERMAN ARMY DEFEATED IN WILTS

LIK

IN

SO MANY military exercises nowadays,

that which I have just seen represented a German invasion and the measures taken to repel it. But,

THE REAL

DECISION

again like the majority of exercises which are being FOR NAZIS

carried out at present, this had a special purpose, in addition to the general purpose of setting the whole of some complicated machinery in motion. It was to test a motorised division and an armoured division, both stationed a considerable distance in- | land and in G.H.Q. reserve.

The warning given by Mr. Churchill in his broadcast that the Nazi attack on Russia was simply the prelude to a final attempt against Bri-

Inevitably, for the sake of crops, both the hostile and the British forces had to be shepherded by strict control on the part of the Army Comman-tain, is underlined by a der into areas in which it was desired by him that report sent to a Budapest they should fight their battles; and that of the

newspaper "Pester Lloyd" tanks was in this case equally inevitably Salisbury by its Berlin correspon-

Plain.

the

division advanced

dent.

Yet the development of

Infantry. The Panzer

and disregarded it operations was perfectly credible

"In all authoritative statements and involved no loss of realism. straight Inland.

made on the war situation, says Moreover, though the divisions

Meanwhile G.H.Q. was being the correspondent, according to had their roles laid down for asked-pestered" might almost "Die Zeitung," the anti-Nazi them and were instructed to advance or retire to certain lines at certa'n hours, they knew no- thing of these moves till the or- ders reached them. And they reported the progress of the battle as news to their

corps

be the word-to hand over the armoured division to meet the new Panzer threat. But G.H.Q. had their own anxieties in other areas.

a.m.

German daily published in Lon- don, it is again and again pointed out that for Germany the real. and final decision in this war is. They replied in effect: to be expected only in the West "You may concert plans with it, where the fighting forces of Ger- head- but you must not touch it till many come directly up against

you're told to, and not till 7 those of Great Britain."

on the third day of the exercises was it released. I had already heard the Army Com- mander give a short sketch of the main features of the exercise on the first afternoon. But con- This, in the correspondent's certing 'plans meant a conference opinion, clearly stressed the signi- at the armoured division's head-ficance of the West European quarters; so there my resourceful theatre of war.

quarters, so that the system of control and intelligence (including even the interrogation of prison- ers) could be practised. And though certain of the formations engaged were represented only by skeltion forces, at least $50,000 troops took part, so that ad- ministration and supply could also be given a real test.

The statement was a comment General on the recent visit by Brauchitsch, German C. in C. to Northern France.

guide took me next morning, and Continuous bombardment over The German “Landing” I was allowed to attend the con- the Channel by the R.A.F. during

ference.

past the fortnight indicates that Three German divisions were The divisional commander Jaideven to-day it cannot be said that supposed to have effected a stress on that quality of which I the situation is all quiet, on the landing on a broad stretch of

7 Western Front. spoke in my article of May

British Wire- coast in the area of the Southern and which I described as "curios- less. Command. One of them on the ity or bite," especially on the left flank was obviously out to part of his armoured cars. In capture a small port, and to cap- fact the two points which he ture it for a purpose for which chiefly emphasized were dash in the enemy will obviously want a front and unremitting attention

SHIP SCHEDULE CHANGED

port if he attempts large-scale to protection, above all anti- Invasion-to, put a Panzer divi- aircraft protection, further in sion ashore. The landing-places rear. He also urged that every There has been a further were (theoretically) heavily effort should be made to fulfil change of schedule of the Asama. bombed by the RA.F., but it that most difficult of all tasks in Maru and Tatuta Maru, which was reported by the pilots that mimic warfare, to create in the are the "Flak" was very formid- mind of the private sold'er

Skill And Realism

to omit Hong Kong and Manila on their next outward ·

San Maru

The Asama Maru will leave → Shanghai on July 10 for Francisco and the Tatuta on July 3.

ARMY OFFICER IN CAR CRASH:

able. In practice the invaders picture in which he should be voyages to America. were given every advantage, and able to see himself. permitted to complete their land- Ing operations in a brief space of time, as though they had suf- fered little or no interruption After that I drove down to

It from bombing.

was, how- the flank of the battlefield, many ever, accepted that the Navy had miles away, to watch that fight- prevented further reinforcement. ing between the motorized divi- All three German divisions sion and the invaders of which I fought their way inland, the spoke earlier. It would be im- two right-hand ones wheeling possible to describe in short right to enlarge the footing gain-space the incidents of the battle, ed and driving before them the which

nevertheless standout remnants of the original defen- clearly in my mind, mingled ders of the beaches to create a with vignettes of that delightful wide gap.

countryside: market towns, vil- G.H.Q., however, handed over lages, manor houses, each more the

motorized... division, and lovely than the last; a blaze of moved. rapidly through gorse, spring flowers in the gar- night in brigade dens, the earlier trees of the groups of all arms to strike the woods and coppices all feathered enemy's-right: "flank onthe with green; a depleted string of morning of the second day. some of the best race-horses in The intervention of these fresh England filling bark over the troops brought about a change in the local situation. But it was too late; on the left the Panzer division was already ashore, "and its armoured cars, pushing boldly into the gap, made very rapid progress.

It

the

A Vulnerable Objective

Lieutenant H. Davies, re- siding at No. 71, Kimberley Road was involved in an accident early this morning While driving in Chatham Road in the direction of the Star Ferry, his car crashed into a gas-lama- post near Mody Road and be suffered faced abrasions.

some of the best race-horses in a flank thrust from the British woodland.

Charmoured division and of protect- One of the strongest Impressing its own Panzer division's slons left by the exercise that i camp during the hours of dark- day wa

was of the skill, and realism (ness. with which it was mounted and a

the ability with which it was This move, in its turn seemed controlled by the senior uma to provide an opportunity: Tor piros.

or the motorized division to pur Next morning I was out on the enemy; pin down hlau In these circumstances the the plain by 7 o'clock in air like guard, and Inflict damage upon

him commander of the motorized divi-wine kept a little too long on the sion did not dare to continue his ice to be ideal, but none the less counter-offensive, which would invigorating. The armoured cars 1 myself, however, following have carried him into the very of the British armoured division the tank battle, saw little more Open country of the plain. A and those of the "Panzers" alike of the infantry fighting. Nor can motorized division may hope to showed great enterprise-so much I say anything about the part put up a stiff resistance to tanks that for once some of the umpires played by the RAF except that constantly over- if it has time to consolidateʼn were taken by surprise by the aircraft were strong position, but if caught on speed at which the opposing head:

tank the move its transport is one of forces made contact. The

Troops Fit And Keen

the most vulnerable military ob- battle on the plain was highly jectives that can be imagined. In realistic, with the British armour- any case this division was some-ed division simultaneously hitting Dimeult as it is to summarize. what widely dispersed, its lead-and feeling for the enemy's flank so long a story, enough has per Ing brigade having pushed for- as it drove him back. This markt-haps been said to ind'cate, how ward very quickly, while one of ed the turn of the tide. The wide was the scope of this ex- the rear brigades seemed to Panzer division foll bacle to ercise, which was watched by have been held up on the road, "harbour! for the night, its move the Commander-in-Chief, how The divisional communder there affecting very corner of the real was the test provided, and fore ordered it to fall back upon battlefield, but most of all the how useful must have been the a river and prepare anti-tunk right flank. Here the centre Ger- lessons derived from it. The defences. UNA

man Infantry division in the troops were tried fairly highly; veescovorod by act of assaulting the British and their Bloen was often very which after motorized division on its river- limited, but the men wonder- ugh into sup-line defences, had to break off fully fit and healthy looking, stood iving boon the action at night and retreat, up to the hard work and Cald pressed by the enemy's for the dual purpose of avoiding not lose their keenness.

·move

the

iding brigā

without