IMMENSE ACTIVITY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 60, 8 September 1938, Page 9

IMMENSE ACTIVITY

GERMAN WESTERN FRONTIER

CEASELESS SUPPLIES

MEN AND EQUIPMENT

VILLAGES COMMANDEERED

(United Press Association —By Electric

Telegraph—Copyright.)

LONDON, September 7.

During a tour of German fortifications from the Saar to Basel (Switzerland) the Strasbourg correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" noted extraordinary activity everywhere. All regular railway services, except long-distance ones, are disrupted. Troops and equipment are pouring in ceaselessly. . An official at Stuttgart station declared that he had not seen such preparations since the Great War. Surprisingly, no attempt is being made at secrecy. All stations are crammed with war materials. Lorries bearing cases marked Krupp (the famous German munition factory) are congesting almost every country road. The military authorities have commandeered whole villages. Riding along the hills behind Freiburg, the correspondent found two large aerodromes cut from the forest, with camouflaged holes providing entrances to underground hangars. The Rhineland reinforcements mostly consist of artillery and air force pilots. The Paris correspondent of "The Times" says that all leave in France has been cancelled. All troops in Marseilles and naval ratings at Tou^j lon have been recalled. All French Ambassadors and Ministers at present on furlough have been instructed to return to their posts immediately.