REAL CLEAVAGE NOW

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 278, 21 August 1944, Page 5

REAL CLEAVAGE NOW

German Regular Army And Nazi Party (Received August 20, 7 p.m.) LONDON, August 19. The prisoners now taken in the south Of Franco exceed 10,000. A second German general who has been captured! on the Riviera frout has been identified as General Ferdinand Neuiing, commander of the 62nd Reserve Group. The other is Major-General Ludwig Bieringer, who, according to Reuter, said, “Germany is headed for a tragic end.” , A high British staff officer at General Montgomery’s headquarters in Normandy, asked yesterday when the end of the war could be expected, said: “Not one of the generals opposing us, from von Kluge downward, is in a position to surrender, because they are all on the Russian list for atrocities committed under their command. We have achieved the military conditions of 191'8, but not the political ones. The only men who could surrender to us don’t dure to do so, because it would be suicide.” There are definite indications of a breach between the Wehrmacht (the regular army) and the S.'S. (iNazi Party corps), says a statement issued later yesterday at the Allied supreme headquarters. The S.iS. is doing all it possibly can to keep itself intact at the expense of the Wehrmacht. No amplification or explanation of this news is available. Important Results. A Canadian Army spokesman said: “There are indications that the chief role of the S.S. troops in this area (south-east of Falaise) is now to keep the infantry from running away. There is every indication of «i between the Wehrmacht and the S.S. This will have an important bearing on the operations from now on.” . The British United , Press tonight picked up a broadcast from a station using the Paris radio wavelength and saving it was speaking in the name of the Wehrmacht, It declared: ‘Catastrophe has befallen us. Our military collapse is inevitable. We are doomed unless we sue for a quick peace. Drop your arms and give yourselves up. At this point the station was jammed.