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FLARE-UP EXPECTED

Fronch Minister's Wost

Front Warning

PARIS, Apr. 11 (Reuter) The front might blaze up any day, bald a War Ministry spokes- man, giving a warning that events in North Europe must not make us forget the front. bo twcon the Mosello and ...tlis' Rhino."

He addvál ""At 'various” points, we have putorveå Indlestions of prepato- Lions for an attacks?). 5.

If

Loaya Cancelled PARIS A 1 1 (Reuter),ma PLEASE Turn To Pagu 2.

The -will the

Big German Offensive In Ve Predicted By French G. HO.

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH» LONDON, APRIL 12 (UP)THE BELIEF IS

GROWING IN LONDON THAT A BIG

GERMAN OFFENSIVE IS IMPENDING THE WEST

Holland, and perhaps Bolglum, are now though

sing conviction to be next in with increasing

Hitler's blitzkriog, time-table.

Not merely amatour strategists but moro and inoro

exports are embracing the theory that entire Scandinavian advonturo, bosides – immediate objectives, was designed as D

Test

Test Comes

generals start

again where they left off

last

TH

time?

HERE was another dawn raid in May twenty-five years ago. The same enemy after prisoners as they were in the B.E.F.

serve all rights and forbid republication raid last week.

either wholly or in part without previous arrangemen

Russian Help To Nazis

WHATEVER self-gratulation

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

It was headed-Construc the gramophonie Nazi Presstion of a Defensive Position," may indulge in, there is not and contained a dingran like likely to be much real rejoicing this. among 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 toughest heart-that is, the Supreme Command (O.H.L.), heart of a Nazi.

whose chief was Colonel Fritz von Lossberg, described as the Some admirers (at 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 in 1914-1918." This is Captain veterate inefficiency had gone

G. C. Wynne's evaluation of von out with Tsardom. More cauti-

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.

Moreover, it is no secret that Russia's response to German solicitations during the last eight months has been as dis- appointing in a material as in a military sense. Enough has happened to prevent Hitler from dreaming of speedy victory helped by Soviet resources. The Bear remains true to its nature-a clumsy, cumbersome animal whose intentions are not

easy to divine.

An American authority who

has made careful study of Russin's ability to help Germany

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FIRST LINE OF RESISTANCE

MAIN UNE OF RESISTANCE

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

by O. D. GALLAGHER "Daily Express" War Reporter back from the Western Front

not yet resumed on the West- ern 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 a 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...." von Lossberg be- gan to overhaul the German system. The

Now

"The night...

passed quietly, and the day broke clear with the entire promise of a Sunday of blue foremost line became a defence skies,..

zone within which the units "The Germans 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.

Oficial German casualties on. coffee, and the night sentrles had been relieved, when sudden- the Somme were 465,000, ly, at Ga.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 aimed 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, "CLOUDS of chlorine

even of a foremost zone, would gas crossed No-man's soon provo too costly.

This change of outlook

Land from the British trenches.

THIS was the backbone of the German Army's actions: "Defend tho foremost line rigidly. Keep it heavily garrisoned in order to hold it at all costs." It neces- sitated 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: was exposed to Allied assault in Third Army to replace a lieu- battle area was Enveloped in a these ways:-

tenant-general"a marked dark, muddy fog.....The Ger- "The Hindenburg Position... (1) The daily increasing power of honour for a junior colonel." mans, who up to now had en- probably shows the way to the 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- heapier casualties among the close career from the Champagne

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 ranget

be modernised suddenly and help

with key material has put his thinning out of the foremost HE writes: "There is a whom the Germans imagined in the Siegfried Position of

(2) The then existing and obsolete battles of 1915 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 ship...rats, mice, moles, and the god of mass-production and break though on a wide front the to understand the clash of walls rocked like the sides of a German General Staff has placed rigidly held line which had such battle doctrines which appear much else came out of holes and technical invention alongside inadequate reserves behind it. to be imminent" on the Western corners and lay dead about the that of 'bravery in battle' in its

The junior members urged a Front to-day.

place....The British gunners, temple. The result may be seen conclusions briefly. If the pre-line, to give the whole front line

saying that in a mill- sweating through the heat of 1940," sent siege war lasts for two depth and resiliency, but their

tary sense a new war begins the day at their work of destruc- Summing up, Captain Wynne ideas were vague.... years without major battles, he

appeared where the last one left off; the tion,

1000 00

** IXXIBLE SENTRY POSTS Then came the French docu- human imagination is so un- indefatigable...

*** - NOUETS says, so that there is a minimum ment-written ten days before, reliable that actual experienco is The German

DODABRALET FROOME

WITH MACHINE TUWS expenditure of war materials in To the junior members it was a needed before changes can be front defences

- DEFENDED COLAUTIES the field, and granted that Ger-cooling mould for their as yet made to an established doctrine."

"An inspiration He therefore examines the doc ed.. 8 SUC- no longer exist- many has time to accumulate liquid ideas. war stocks and reorganise towards a solution for which trines of the opposing armies in cession of shell Soviet industry and transport, they had been searching," says the west at the end of the last holes then Russian aid might well be touch in this instruction was was the German development of

Captain Wynne. "The original war. The outstanding feature them.. decisive in determining the mili- that the main line of resistance, the defensive battle, which mighty prepara- When the 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 to Germany.

replaced

#

line of strong points, about 200 tion. That is the keynote of his by 1,518 guns),

**** 16 EXTTALIONY BOUNDARIES

•Communication,

-French

This looks like suggesting that yards apart, and these strong remarkable book, and "battle the Germans clambered from says: "There is a limit to the time is on the side of the Nazis. like miniature forts for all- 1915 onwards was mainly the these very shell holes, carrying and it is...probable that mass- points were to be constructed in depth" from the autumn of their crushed hide-outs into...endurance of human beings, But what hope have they of round defence and capable of work of one master-mind-von their machine-guns.

production of munitions has substantially reorganising So- offering long. resistance, even Lossberg, artist in war.

Four llacs of British troops, reached such a pitch to-day that viet industry and transport though surrounded on all siden.'

seemingly without end, went a barrage so laid can act that

from the third lino...."

the

when so deeply committed to Their garrisons were to hold on And so to the Somme. The over the top at a steady, com- limit. It may well be that the those taske at home? Further, until relieved by victorious British offensive - another fortable pace, as if expecting to barrage of lead now in what prospect is there that the counter-attack by the reserves promotion for von Lossberg and find nothing alive in the front power of the Maginot Line...

his complete conversion to the trenches. "Some carried Kodaks to lay down will two brands of totalitarianism:

cause such a would amicably co-operate in Maginot, and other lines of to-

So was born the Siegfried, doctrine of his former junior...stopping to take pictures.” holocaust of men and machines

officers.

"Get ready l' wes passed ng will revolt the ranks of the the projected reorganisation? day. They are direct descen- Captain Wynne writes a bril- along the German front from aggressor, whatever gods his It seems much more likely that dants of the Hindenburg Line of liant twenty-seven-page account crater to crater....A hail of General Staff may worship. they would pull in opposita 1917, whose official name then of that mighty Somme upheaval lead awept into the advancing Weight of metal may directions.

was actually Siegfried,

—a glimpse of real land warfare, lines....The advance rapidly correct answer."

be the