CANNOT REST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 263, 7 November 1939, Page 7

CANNOT REST.

HITLER PERTURBED.

Calls Repeated Conferences That Decide Little. STRAIN OF DECEPTION. (Special.—-By Air Mail.) PARIS, October 10. Nazi loaders are struggling desperately to keep their people in ignorance of the French determination "to finish with it" —"it" being the everrecurring threat of Na/.i aggression.

Their Army Command, dealing with the French withdrawal on a nineteenmile iK-lt of the Western Front, planned by (ieneral Gamelin, did not attempt to claim the usual "advance by our victorious troops."

They merely announced that the French troops had retired from German soil—less than half the truth, for the French are firmly established on many square miles of Reich territory.

With the strain of this constant deception. Hitler is finding it daily more difficult to control his nerves.

Robert Lorette, for many years the Berlin correspondent of "Paris-Soir," writes that, according to information he has received, Hitler, unable to rest, marches ceaselessly up and down his vast room at the Chancellerv.

He calls repeated conferences, which disperse with little or nothing decided. At intervals he pores over his General Staff's maps on the Western Front and the coasts of Britain.

The French feeling- is that any move which the distracted Fuehrer may order against the Maginot Line will be the stroke of a nation trapped and desperate. The German Army, better than their leaders, realise to-day that there is something frighteninglv solid between them and Paris. The Nazi soldiers who advanced on that nineteen-mile front to the French first line of defence are. not saying "Xach Paris"'—"On to Paris"—at the moment.