PROBABLE GERMAN STRATEGY
EFFORT TO DELAY RETREAT TO WEST WALL
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) NEW YORK, September 12. The Paris correspondent of the "New York Times" says that the Germans' offensive yesterday is reported to have been entrusted to relatively important regular army troops, who advanced several hundred yards before they were halted by a French counter-attack. The Germans, he states, will strive to delay a retreat into the West Wall. Once below the ground, their reaction to attacks would be restricted to artillery fire, for the points from which sorties maybe made would be under constant fire. The experience in the World War shows that it is difficult to keep troops controlled when they are in what amounts to a prison and are pounded relentlessly by heavy guns,.not knowing what is happening outside and knowing that barrages have been laid down to cut off their retreat arid prevent reinforcements arriving.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 64, 13 September 1939, Page 9
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150PROBABLE GERMAN STRATEGY Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 64, 13 September 1939, Page 9
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