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Russian Help To Nazis

WHATEVER self-gratulation

FLARE-UP EXPECTED

'French Minister's West

Front Warning

PARIS,' Apr. 11 (Reuter), më The front right bluze up any day, said a War Ministry spokes man, giving a warning `thatj avents in North Europe must) not make us forget the front bo tween the Mosello and the Rhino".

Ho, oddech: "At various points we have observed indications of preparu- | tfore for an attacle.

Losva Cancelled

PARIS,

Apr. 11 ((Hauler) --- PLEASE. Turn To Page:2.

If The

Big German Offensive In Wen Predicted By French G.H.O.

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" LONDON, APRIL 12 (UP) —THE BELIEF IS GROWING IN LONDON THAT A BIG GERMAN OFFENSIVE IS IMPENDING IN THE WEST.

Holland, and porhaps Belgium, are now thought with increasing conviction to be next in Hitler's blitzkrieg time-table.

Not merely amatour strategists but more and more exports are embracing the theory that ontiro Scandinavian adventuro, bosidas its immediate objectives, was designed as a

Test

Comes

-will the generals start again where they left off

last time?

HERE was another dawn raid in May The same enemy after prisoners as they were in the B.E.F. raid last week.

T twenty-five years ago.

It

Was

poyas. 8 8

FIRST LINE OF RESISTANCE

MAIN LINE OF RESISTANCE

Among things the enemy found in the raided. French trench near La Ville, north of Rheims, was a document of apparent minor importance.

headed "Construc- the gramophonic Nazi Press tion of a Defensive Position," may indulge in, there is not and contained a diagran like likely to be much real rejoicing this. umong German, higher circles

It was signed by the French about the trade agreement with Fifth Army Commander. In Russia. The Soviet is a cus-routine fashion it went to Opera- tomer likely to break even the tions Section of the German (O.H.L.), toughest heart--that is, the Supreme Command

whose chief was Colonel Fritz heart of a Nazi.

von Lossberg, described as the Some admirers (ut a safe dis-only "artist in war, if not the tance) of the new order in only personality worthy of the Russia had

convinced them- name who rose to responsible selves that the country's in-position in any belligerent army This is Captain in 1914-1918,' veterate inefficiency had gone out with Tsardom. More cauti-G. C. Wynne's evaluation of von Lossberg, whom he makes the ous observers had their doubts, chief character in his book, "If which were confirmed by all that Germany "Attacks." happened in the Soviet aggres. sion on Finland.

of

the

It neces-

LISTENING POSTS.- ¿¿. STRONG POINTS- COUNTER ATTACK RESERVE SHELTERS." MACHINE GUNS.- %. X

by 0. D. GALLAGHER

"Daily Express" War Reporter back from the Western Front

not yet resumed on the West- orn Front:

crumbled under this hall of bullets.... Again and again ex- tended lines of British infantry broke against the German de- fence like waves against cliff. ..."It was an 'amazing spectacle of unexampled gallantry, courage, and bulldog determina- tion on both sides. By evening, however, the attack had come to a standstill, and the 180th In- fantry Regiment was still in possession of the whole trace of its original trench system....'

NOW von Lossberg be

gan to overhaul the German system. The

"The night ... passed quietly, and the day broke clear with the entire promise of n Sunday of blue foremost line became a defence akies.

zone within which the units "The Germany in their deep, moved as the situation demand- tunnelled dug-outs in the front ed. Shell holes were linked by line had finished their morning trenches.

Official German casualties on coffee, and the night, sentries

Somme were 465,000, had been relieved, when sudden- the ly, al 6 a.m., a great mass of against an Allied total of 623,- shells burst with a thundering 000 (419,000 British). "These crash on and along the whole figures...showed an increasing- front....This violent tornado ly heavy proportion of German lasted some hours, until about casualties, and it was the flower midday the shelling changed to of the German Army which was a steady, carefully almed fire, as gradually being lost...." if the British batteries were Hindenburg and Ludendorff, competing with one another in a fearing the steady increase of shooting tournament, but dur- munitions from the Allied fac Ing the afternoon the bombard- tories, believed that a new doc- ment increased again.....

trine of defence was essential to their army. Rigid defence, even of a foremost zone, would

This change of outlook.

"CLOUDS of chlorine gas crossed No-man's

THIS was the backbone German Moreover, it is no secret that Army's actions: "Defend the Russia's response to German foremost line rigidly. Keep it nolicitations during the last heavily garrisoned in order to eight months has been as dig. hold it at all costs." appointing in a material as insituted packing troops so dense an artist in war."

ly into the foremost line that it moted to chief of staff of the steps of the dug-outs....The in this sketch.

As Captain Wynne observes: a military sense. Enough has was exposed to Allied assault in Third Army to replace a lleu- battle area was enveloped in a happened to prevent Hitler from these ways:-

tonant - general "a marked dark, muddy fog.....The Ger- The Hindenburg Position... probably shows the way to the dreaming of speedy victory

(1) The daily increasing power of honour for a junior colonel." mans, who up to now had en- helped by. Soviet resources. our bombardment would cause ever And Captain Wynne traces his dured the inferno almost with defensive battle of the future.

indifference, began to feel "The German Army has ac- career from the Champagne The Bear remains true to its heavier casualtier among the close nature-a clumsy, cumbersome animal whose intentions are not easy to divinc.

Land from the British trenches. Don prove too costly. VON LOSSBERG, gets The dense fumes filled every brought the Hindenburg (or his first recognition as crevice in the ground. They first Siegfried) Line, crystallised

He is pro- crept like live things down the

Tanks well within our range:

(2) The then existing and obsolete battles of 1916 to the Somme alarmed. The concussion put cepted the legacy of war experi- Allied method of attack by massed campaign (July-November 1916) out candles and acetylene lights ence of its predecessors unreser- man-power in successive waves might in his (Wynne's) masterly effort in the deepest dug-outs. The vedly, and modernised it. The be modernised suddenly and help to understand the clash of Walls rocked like the sides of a German General Staff has placed ship...rats, mice, moles, and the god of mass-production and An American authority who break though on a wide front et battle doctrines which appears much else came out of holes and technical invention alongside

rigidly held line which had such

to be imminent" on the Western has made careful study of inadequate reserves behind it.

corners and lay dead about the that of 'bravery in battle' in its Russia's ability to help Germany The junior members urged a Front to-day.

place....The British gunners, temple. The result may be seen with key material has put his thinning out of the foremost

HE

TE writes: "There is a whom the Germans imagined in the Siegfried Position of conclusions briefly. If the pre-line, to give the whole front line

saying that in a mili- sweating through the heat of 1940.”

Summing up, Captain Wynne new war begins the day at their work of destruc tary sense a sent siege war lasts for two depth and resiliency, but their

ideas were vaghie.?....

where the last one left off; the tion, appeared

1000 00 years without major battles, he

Then came the. French docu- human imagination is so un indefatigabic... says, so that there is a minimum

ment-written ten days before. reliable that actual experience is The German expenditure of war materials in To the junior members it was a needed before changes can be front defences

wor

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Communication

Tranch

"There is a limit to the

the field, and granted that Ger-cooling mould for their as yet made to an established doctrine." no longer exist many has time to accumulate liquid ideas. "An inspiration He therefore examines the doc ed... a suc reorganise towards a solution for which trines of the opposing armies in cession of shell replaced Soviet industry and transport, they had been searching," says the west at the end of the last holes then Russian aid might well be Captain Wynne. "The original war. The outstanding feature them....

touch in this instruction was was the German development of When the declaive in determining the mili- that the main line of resistance, the defensive battle, which mighty prepara tary outcome in the West. But that is, the line of pickets, was produced the "battle in depth," tory

barrage in a short war of big offensives to be held not by a continous line of which the giant fortified lines ended (1,628,000 Russia cannot give decisive aid of rifles, as was usual, but by a of to-day are the natural evolu- shells were used line of strong points, about 200 tion. That is the keynote of his by 1,518, guns), to. Germany.

yards apart, and these strong remarkable book, and "battle the Germans clambered from says: This looks like auggesting that points were to be constructed in depth" from the autumn of their crushed hide-outs into...endurance of human beings, time is on the side of the Nazis. like miniature forts for all- 1916 onwards was mainly, the these very shell holes, carrying and it is...probable that mass- production of munitions has. But what hope have they of round defence and capable of work of one master-mind-von their machine-guns. substantially reorganising ..., So- offering long resistance, even Lossberg, artist in war.

Four lines of British troops, reached such a pitch to-day that seemingly without end, went a barrage so laid can set that. viet Industry and transport though surrounded on all sides.”

And

so to the Somme. The over the top at a steady, com- limit. It may well be that the when no deeply committed to Their garrisons were to hold on

the by

now in offensive victorious British

another fortablo pace, as if expecting to barrage of lead those tasks at home? Further, until relieved what prospect is there that the counter-attack by the reserves promotion for von Lossberg and and nothing alive in the front power of the Maginot Line... from the third line....” big complete conversion to the trenches. "Some carried Kodaks to lay down will cause such a ...stopping to take pictures," halocaust. of mon and machines: two brands of totalitarianism So was born the Siegfried, doctrine of his former junior would amicably co-operate in Maginot, and other lines of to-officers.

ready! was passed as will revolt the ranks of the the projected reorganisation? day. They are direct deacen- Captain Wynne writes a bril along the German front from aggressor, whatever gode his

crater....A hail of General Staff

may worship. It seems much more likely that dants of the Hindenburg Line of light twenty-seven-page account crater to they would pull in opposite 1917, whose official name then of that mighty Somme upheaval lead swept into the advancing Weight of metal may be the directions,

was actually Siegfried,

advance rapidly correct answer.” a glimpse of real land warfare, lines....Tho

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