GERMANS BEEN WELL AND TRULY BEATEN

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 88, 14 April 1945, Page 5

GERMANS BEEN WELL AND TRULY BEATEN

"ICEBERG TACTICS'

Wholesale Destruction, Says "Monty"

Rec. 12.30 .p.m. RUGBY, April 13. _• Field-Marshal - Montgomery announced to-day that the Germans had been well and truly, defeated, . states a - correspondent on the bms- ; Weser Canal. . . Field-Marshal Montgomery, who was speaking to tne Royal Engineers, who had' just completed. their thousandth bridge since - last June, said: "Destruction is now going on at a wholesale rate. . . "Every single little thing is being blown up. That is why our. progress here in the north is; so slow. The Germans are destroying every single, . live, mor.tal .thing. The Nazis will never surrender. They will go on fighting to the last and will Drmg Germany down with them. "The total prisoners taken by the Allies since D day is now nearly 2.000,000. The Allies are now so ciosG.to Berlin that our fighterse fighter-bombers can. go over . Berlin every dav.. • ... .' "German .public opinion cannot say the Germans are sick of it, so it has got to. go on. If . there was any public opinion it would rise up and say 'finish;'-but if anyone does rise up he gets bumped off.

"Finally, the whole residue will probably retire into the mountains and they will be rounded up. You hear a lot of talk about a retreat in the Bavarian Mountains near. Berchtesgaden. I do not know about that, but we read about it. The War is now What is called 'iceberg tacticschopping "chunks off the Wehrmacht to melt in the sea of Allied men and material until eventually there will be no Germans left to fight."