NAZI FIGHTING TECHNIQUE

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23053, 22 June 1940, Page 12

NAZI FIGHTING TECHNIQUE

ABUSE OF WHITE FLAG BAYONET VERSUS TOMMY : GUN. , (FEOil OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, May 31. A man dh leave from the battle zone has a vivid picture to present regarding the Germans and their methods. This is how he expresses himself to a “Daily Express” representative. “Four days ago I myself set an advance post. They were raw soldiers, young men who had not been under fire before. Their first taste of warfare was a German tank coming at them. The tank stopped. It hoisted a white flag, and our post accepted the flag. They Went out to meet it, and the German tank drove forward. Its guns scythed them dpwo, and its bulk went over their bodies. .. . “Man for man, .we can beat the # Jer-. ries.' Hut the men who are lighting out there now are fighting against an enemy who hurls his men at you ■as though they were bullets, to be used once—a foe who -useS platoons as though they were flame-throwers and advance units like hand grenades. “The Huns have invented an entirely new form of warfare. They make the civilians of their enemy their ally. They panic them with bombs, drive them out into the roads, then dive to machine-gun them, creating chaos. “I saw a company of the Guards go out on counter-attack. They were rhet by Germans, every man of whom had a gangster’s tommy gun. Those Guards had a bayonet with which to fight a tommy gun. They’re all gangsters and we’re still fighting Queensbury rules. “If the war spreads here it will come as a creeoing barrage of death. Village by village, town by town'. Always a little further forward. First they heavily bomb their spot, demolishing, say, one house" in 20. Then they spray lightly with incendiary bombs. An hour later, - when everybody is putting out the fires, they come a third time and finish it off.”