GERMANY AT MERCY OF EISENHOWER

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1944, Page 3

GERMANY AT MERCY OF EISENHOWER

: (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Bee. 1 p.m. ' ' LONDON, September 3: More vital for the moment than the actual invasion of Germany is the fact that the Allies, by their astonishing- advances, have sealed off the entrances to the Reich from Western Europe and prevented the escape of perhaps 350,000 combatant troops and a great many more ancillary troops, says the "Daily Express's" xoilitary writer. Tonight's news confirms the report that all the main roads and railways between Aachen and well south of Strasbourg have been cut at the points nearest to Germany, leaving a vast sack around northern France, Belgium, and Holland. The magnitude of this disaster can be more readily understood when it is remembered that to cover the 500-mile-long- West Wall '(Siegfried Line) the enemy is believed to have not more than seven divisions of fighting troops of about 100,000 men, and no armour at all. -. It means that Germany is now at the mercy of General Eisenhower's armies. _ The Siegfried Line, defences, even if they are in first-class condition, .which they are not, could not do more- than delay us for a very short period. Prepared fortifications on the frontier of •Belgium and Holland are- sparse. Far to the southward, near the Swiss frontier, conditions are Similar. . ' . . The Allies .will not necessarily rush into Germany at once. They may allow a day or two to build up their supply lines, service and refuel the hundreds of tanks tha^; are poised ready near Hitler's frontier. v : The pause will not be a long one. • .