Ashburton Guardian Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1944. MYSTIFYING THE GERMANS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 147, 1 April 1944, Page 2

Ashburton Guardian Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1944. MYSTIFYING THE GERMANS

• The Germans, according' to the latest report, are greatly perturbed at the prospect ol the Allies embarking on a second front. On the Atlantic coast of France, already well fortified, they have constructed a second line of defence. On the Mediterranean coast they have completed a “wall” from the Pyrenees to the borders of Italy. The European peoples can count beyond doubt the fact that their day of liberation—for those of them who are existing under the German yoke, and the day for the Nazis of dreadful reckoning—will be hastened and assured by military invasion of the Continent by British and American, plus other Allied forces. But no man among the Germans can tell where, along the thousands of miles of coastline, the blow will fall. The Nazis, weighing the statements respecting invasion of the Allied leaders, can obtain no indication of the form and direction it may take, anywhere from Norway and the Low Countries to the north-easterly limits of the Mediterranean, but they cannot have failed to remark the grave confidence of their tone. The recent speeches by Mr Churchill have opened for the Germans, as well as for the people of the United Nations, many interestingprospects for speculation. His broadcast statement that there will be “many false alarms, many feints, and many dreys rehearsals in the days ahead” was ostensibly addressed to what, might be called his official public. But it fell also upon the keenly-attuned ears of the enemy, both in high places and among those grouped about forbidden wireless receivers in hidden corners of the Reich and its vassal States.