NEW STRATEGY

Evening Star, Issue 25227, 14 July 1944, Page 3

NEW STRATEGY

ALLIES IN NORMANDY UNEXPECTED PROBLEM FOR GERMANS LONDON, July 13. " The Allies since the invasion, by the adoption of completely new strategy, breaking away from all the accepted military rules, have confronted the German Command with a completely unexpected problem," declared the German radio commentator, Baron von Imhoff. " There used to be certain armies, corps, and divisions with a definite job to do in the general plan. In one month all these rules nave been broken. " Rear roads have become the immediate battlefield.'. They are under constant bombardment by Allied planes, and our fighting men are exposed to the peril of being cut off from supplies, isolated, and thus destroyed. Hithorto our Supreme Command has been able to deploy, concentrate and send up reinforcements on relatively secure supply lines Our hinterland is now under perpetual bombardment, never before matched or even dreamed of, by the enemy's air forces and artillery, even naval guns. Under such conditions no German concentrations could be built up within striking distance of the front, and our command could not use railways and highways, on which it counted. Our marching columns were banned from the roads. We anticipated a terrific battle of material on the eastern front model, but the new Allied strategy confronted us with a completely novel situation, and it has required all the organising talent of tho German High Command for improvisation on the grandest scale, because even the smallest paths and byways have received the enemy's constant attention. The German High Command is, therefore, abstaining from concentrating striking forces behind the front and sending columns along the roads. Our operational reserves are moving invisibly by devious ways to reach critical points in good time. By day our forces go to earth; by night they move." A composite picture of the Normandy battle from three German war reporters was broadcast from Berlin radio last night. Richard Einskeller said: "The enemy's artillery in tho past 24 hours has risen to a' pitch of fury exceeding anything that has gone