NAZI PLANS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 17, 20 January 1940, Page 9

NAZI PLANS.

ALWAYS UNCERTAIN. Attack Might Come At Any Time. BELGIAN LEAVE RESTORED. (Keccivetl noon.) RUGBY, January 10. In a leading article headed "Tension Relaxed" "The Times" writes: "The wintry weather, with poor visibility and snowed-up roads, lias probably settled for Hie moment at any rate (lie question whether the Nazi High C'oinniand is, or is not, about to launch an assault on the Western Front via Holland and Belgium. "Surprise being one of Hitler's favourite weapons in war, as in diplomacy, it can never be said for certain that 110 prospect of such an attack exists. "Hitler is ready to attack any neighbour at any moment, and since lie lias no regard i'or a given pledge, the fact that he has formally assured both the Dutch and Belgian Governments that he. has 110 designs against them only makes it more likely that, if and when a general offensive in the west is ordered from Berlin, it should be carried out through the neutral countries on either flank "of the Maginot defensive system." Army leave lias been restored, says a cable from Brussels. The inhabitants on both sides of the frontier between Holland and Germany are annoyed by the barbed wire barrier which the. Germans have erccled, says a report from the Hague. '1 he barrier cuts roads, isolates hamlets and divides villages in twain. A dispatch from Brussels says, concrete barricades have been installed 011 the Luxemburg part of the bridge across the Moselle at Romich. Other barricades are being built along the Mobile and inland.