200 GERMAN DIVISIONS

Grey River Argus, 13 February 1940, Page 7

200 GERMAN DIVISIONS

On West Front ALLIED COMPARISON. [Aust. & NZ. Cable Assn.] (Received February 14, 1.14 a.m.). PARIS, February. 13. Colonel Fabry, in “Le Martin” says: “The German Armv will soon reach a strength of two hundred divisions. The Allied Armies will reach this figure some time later, when the. British Army is fully developed, . Belgium has twenty well-trained divisions.” A French communique says: The enemy made an attack on our posts. It was repulsed. There has been some artillerv firing. LONDON, February 1.1. The Brussels correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says: Two .crack German Corps, totalling si:; divisions, who were concentrated at Aachen (near Belgium), departed last week. They have been replaced .by... t\yo newly-formed Corps, both Austrian units, of the same strength, which are rated as third class. It is now revealed that Marshal Von Brauchitsch (German ~Comm-ander-in-Chief), personally inspected the frontier districts of Southern Holland and Northern Belgium, by air. on November 10 last,, and decided that the. flood conditions , there ivere unfavourable for an offensive. LONDON, February 11. The German radio said: pur ina-chine-gun fire silenced Allied loud speakers on the Western Front, because of their primitive insulting nature. The French answered sulting in a lively exchange, but the loud-speakers remained silent.