GERMAN COMMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 47, 24 February 1945, Page 7

GERMAN COMMENT

"New, Decisive Chapter" Rec. 12.45 p.m. LONDON, February 23. "A new, decisive chapter in the war has opened on the Western Front," says the Get[man news agency's commentator, Hallensleben. "The fact that the Allies are the first to go into the ring is undoubtedly the result of the Yalta conference. Tbe Allied High Command is evidently using similar tactics to the Russians—attacking to cut the German forces in two and then annihilate them. Before long we wiU also have to bear a mammoth Russian effort. "We will see the biggest battles of the war during the next $<ew weeks. All our strength will be required to endure them."

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purpose was to move up to the Rhine and offer a flanking threat to the Maas River defences, giving increased power for any attack across the Maas.

Reuter, quoting an American broadcaster at SHAEF, says it is not unusual that there is no comment from SHAEF. "Announcement of an offensive is generally delayed until we see how things go,"' he says. The British United Press correspondent with the Third Army reports that despite the fact that General Patton's troops are pressing deeper into Germany, the Germans have not yet shown signs of making a "Stand or die" effort. Many Germans are surrendering with eagerness reminiscent of the great sweep across France last year. All prisoners have appeared to be happy.