ALLIED LEADER’S AUDACITY

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 281, 24 August 1944, Page 4

ALLIED LEADER’S AUDACITY

Fruits Of Strategy ENEMY MAY WEAKEN ROBOT DEFENCES .By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received August 23, 9.10 p.m.) LONDON, August 23. “In its audacity, General Montgomery’s strategy has left the German drive at Sedan in 1940 as historically second class, says the military correspondent of the “Yorkshire Post” He adds: “The whole army is talking of Montgomery’s strategy in drawing the enemy’s strength into Normandy, wearing it down in close combat, and then launching the armoured drive on the right, which turned the Paris flank “When the Berlin commentator Captain Sertorius said that the Allies’ intention was to herd the Seventh Army forces together at the mouth of the Seine, thus producing a situation fraught with many risks for the Germans, he probably had in mind what has now become a question of the gravest importance foi the enemy high command and. one of considerable interest for the Allied leaders.’ the correspondent says. “It is a question whether the Germans should attempt to bring troops from th( Pas de Calais area across the Somme t< the aid of those elements of the Fiffeentl Army who, on the right bank of tht Seine, are now ‘receiving’ the remnants of the Seventh Army that have manager to struggle across the river. It.is be lieved that without such reinforcements the Germans can hardly hope seriously. t< defend the stretch of Channel coast whicl includes Le Havre. Fecamp and Dieppe “On the other hand, one of the las things the Germans would wish to do is to weaken the defences of the Pas d( Calais and reduce the garrisons rouni the flying-bomb sites, which count so. in’ portantly in the Nazi propaganda.”