BEFORE THE WINTER

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 279, 22 August 1944, Page 6

BEFORE THE WINTER

Chances Of Defeat Of Germany (By ’J’eJeeranh —Press Assn • Wui.'j right.) ‘ (Special Correspondent.) (Received August 21, 11.55 p.m.) LONDON, August 21. „ ‘•Two conditions are now paramount,’ says the “Daily Telegraph’s” military correspondent, Lieutemint-Generiil Alartin, commenting on the position in France. “One is that-Hitler’s cherished S.S personnel should not be allowed to escape across the Seine not only to fight another day, but also to work as a leaven in the Wehrmacht. The other is tha. the Allies should establish bridgeheads across the Seine, preferably both above and below Paris, before von Kluge has had time to reorganize his defence. “Granted these two fundamental requirements, the 10 indifferent divisions now left in the Germans’ Fifteenth Army beyond the Seine could offer no sort ot prolonged resistance. And Hitler na» already sent to oppose the Russians every trained soldier ho could squeeze from occupied Europe and the Reich. He has little or nothing left to send to vtin Ku ge The liberation ot northern France and the Low Countries, therefore would then be little more than military progress,” Use of Reserves. Commenting on the Russian front, General Martin refers to the change imposed upon the German strategy of havin" to turn forces from the west to stem the Russian advance. Tie is of the opinion that the Red Army created a position which the German high command never contemplated. On the whole of the eastern front today the road centre of Kielce is perhaps the centre of the greatest interest, he says, and ad ds. “I believe, ou their current foim, that the Russians can still reach the Oder bv mid-October.” ‘ He expresses the opinion that as mattors stand now the Allies have but to strike and strike again to the of their power and they will rid the world of “the foul beast” before the winter comes.