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Front Warning

PARIS, Apr. 11 (Reuter)~~ The front might blaze up any day, said a War Ministry spokes man, giving a warning that! ovanta in North Europe must not make us forgot the front bo- tween the Mosello and tho Rhine."

Ila nildict; "At various points wo have observed indications of proparu- tion for an attack.","

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(Reuter) PARIS, Apr. 11 PLEASE Turn To Page 2.

The

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 perhaps Belgium, are now thought with increasing conviction to be next in 'Hitler's blitzkrieg time-tablo.

Not merely amatour strategists but more and inoro exports aro embracing the theory that the ontiro Scandinavian advonturo, besides 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

twenty-five years ago.

TH

by 0. D.

GALLAGHER

of The same enemy

after prisoners as they were in the B.E.F.

serve 41 rights ant forbla republication, raid last week.

either wholly or in part without previous отгалдстень,

Russian Help To Nazis

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

WHATEVER self-gratulation IL

WAX headed "Construc- The gramophonic Nazi Pression of a 'Defensive Position," may indulge in, there is not and contained a diagran like likely to be much real rejoicing this.

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among

German higher circles

It was signed by the French about the trade agreement with Fifth Army Commander. in Russia. The Suviel is a cus-routine fashion it went to Opera- tomer likely to break even the tions Section of the German

is. toughest heart-that

(O.H.L.), the Supreme Command

whose chief was Colonel Fritz heart of a Nazi.

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 bud 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 out with Tsardom. More cauti-G. C. Wynne's evaluation of von -Lossberg, whom he makes the ous observers had their doulits, chief character in his book, "If which were confirmed by all that Germany Attacks.” happened in the Soviet aggres- sion on Finland.

gone

$ $

8 6

FIRST LINE OF RESISTANCE

MAIN LINE OF RESISTANCE

LISTENING POSTS.- & O STRONG POINTS- COUNTER ATTACK

RESERVE SHELTERS. MACHINE GUNS.-X

****--•600 yas.

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

overhaul the. gan to German system. The

"Daily Express" War Reporter back from the Western

not yet resumed on the West- ern Front:m

passed quietly,

NOW

The night... and the day broke clear with the entire promise of a Sunday of blue foremost line became a defence zone within which the units skies.

"The Germans in their deep, moved as the situation demand- tunnelled dug-outs in the front ed. Shell hales were linked by line had finished their morning trenches. coffee, and the night sentries Oficial German casualties on

Somme lind been relieved, when sudden. the

were 465,000, ly, at 6 a.m., a great mass of against an Allied. total of 628,- 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....

were British batteries

Hindenburg and Ludendorff, competing with one another in a fearing the steady increase of shooting-tournament,-but-dur-munitions-from-the-Allied-fac--

if the

*

ing the afternoon the bombard- tories, believed that a new doc- ment increased again............. trine of defence was essential to

their

defence, army. Rigid "CLOUDS of chloring

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

Land from the British trenches.

THIS was the backbone,

of the German Moreover, it is no secret that Army's actions: "Defend the Russia's response to German foremost line rigidly. Keep it solicitations

the last heavily garrisoned in order to daring eight months has been as dis- hold it at all costs." It neces- appointing in a material as insitated 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

As Captain Wynne observes: a military sense. Enough has

was exposed to Allied assault in Third Army to replace a licu- battle area was enveloped in a happened to prevent Hitler from these ways:-

"a marked dark, muddy fog.....The Ger. "The Hindenburg Position... tenant-general

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-

almost with defensive battle of the future. helped by Soviet resources. our bombardment would cause ever And Captain Wynne traces his dured the inferno

indifference, began to feel "The German Army has ac- The Bear remains true to its heavier casualties among the close career from the Champagne

ranks well within our range; nature a clumsy, cumbersome (2) The then existing ari obsolete battles of 1915 to the Somme alarmed. The concussion put cepted the legacy of war experi- out candles and acetylene lights ence of its predecessors unreser- animal whose intentions are not Ailled method of attack by massed campaign (July-November 1916) in the deepest dug-outs. The vedly, and modernised it. The

man-power in successive waves might in his (Wynne's) misterly effort easy to divino.

be modernised suddenly and help to understand the clash of walls rocked like the sides of a German General Staff has placed break though on a wide front the battle doctrines which appears ship...rats, mice, moles, and the god of mass-production and invention alongside. rigidly held line which had such inadequate reserves behind it.

to be imminent" on the Western much else came out of holes and technical

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

This chango of outlook. VON LOSSBERG gets The dense fumes filled every

his first recognition as crevice in the ground. They first Siegfried) Line, crystallised brought the Hindenburg (or He is pro- crept like live things down the in this sketch.

and

then Russian aid might well be touch in this instruction was was the German development of

War. The outstanding feature them..

defences

. a guc-

80

Summing up, Captain Wynne 1000,-***

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Communication

Trench

An American authority who has made careful study of Russia's ability to help Germany 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 conclusions briefly. If the pre-line, to give the whole front line

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

now war begins, the day at their work of destruc- tary sense a ideas were vague....

where the last one left off; the tion, appeared years without major battles, he

Then came the French docu: human Imagination is so un- indefatigable... 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 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. war stocks 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

replaced Captain Wynne. "The original decisive in determining the mili-that the main line of resistance, the

When 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 1,513 guna), Jards apart, and these strong remarkable book, and "battle the Germans clambered "from says: "There is a limit to the 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-1915 onwards was mainly the these very shell holes, carrying and it is...probable that mass- 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 lines of British troops, reached such a pitch-to-day that vict industry and transport though surrounded on all sides.'

seemingly without end, went a barrage no laid can set that when so deeply committed to Their garrisons were to hold on And so to the Somme. The over the top at a steady, com- mit. It may well be that the the those tasks 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 cause such a two branda of totalitarianism would amienbly co-operate in Maginat, and other lines of to-

So was born the Siegfried, doctrine of his former junior...stopping to take pictures." holocaust of men and machines "'Get ready!' was passed as 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 opposite 1917, whone official name then of that mighty Somme upheaval load swept into the advancing Weight of metal may be the directions.

was actually Siegfried,

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

to Germany.

This looks like suggesting that

from the third line...."

officers.