INVASION LEADERS

Grey River Argus, 8 January 1944, Page 3

INVASION LEADERS

Eisenhower to be in London ROMMEL TOURS HOLLAND. LONDON, Jan. 6. General Eisenhower will make his headquarters in London, says the “Evening Standard.” An announcement is expected to be made from Allied Headquarters when he arrives. General Eisenhower may bring to London many of the staff officers who served under him at his North Afr 1 - cacan Headquarters. His movements have been secret since January 2, when he sent a farewell message to the Allied Forces in North Africa. Tne 8.8. C. to-day broadcast the following warning to Belgians, at the request of the Allied Command: “In the event of military operations on no account take flight along the roads. If you are on the roads you will obstruct the Allied Air Forces’ activities.” Belgians were advised to stay in their homes, and get into reinforced cellars if possible. The German News Agency announced that Marshal .Von Rommel has completed a tour of Holland where he inspected the coastal defences of occupied Western territories. The News Agency said that the manoeuvres and alarm exercises again proved the high training and fighting worth of the German soldiers.

General Sir Harold E. Franklyn has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Home Forces in succession to General Sir Bernard Paget, who recently appointed Chief Commander in the Middle East. General Franklyn has been commanding the troops in Northern Ireland since May 1941. His task was to train a large part of the field army for eventual service overseas while it might do duty at an v moment to defend Ireland against an invader. American troops began to arrive in his area two years ago, and he elaborated with their command detailed plans for mutual help in training and administration, and mutual support in battle.

His success in Ireland matched his previous career of remarkable work in command of troops and on the staff. When powerful German armoured forces were pushing rapidly towards the mouth of the Somme Channel ports he wa's given command of a mixed force to close the breach south-east of Arras and for two days held the ground against violent and increasing pressure until ordered to withdraw. The defence of Arras, said Lord Gort in his despatch, imposed a valuable delay on a greatly superior force. Goebbels’ Comment EFFECT OF RADIS ON GERMANY. ' (Rec. 115.) LONDON, Jan, 7. Dr. Goebbles in an article in the “Das Reich” says:— “The enemy’s bombing terror is a good school of hatred. It teaches more hatred than we are capable of teaching. “This,” he said, “may tip the scales of the coming invasion. Wherever in this war we have defeated foreign people we have showed, them mercy. The German soldiers have fed starving French refugees, and there is nothing for which the German people have given greater, credit to the Fuehrer than for his chivalrous treatment of France at Campeigne. But Britain, ■by her terror, has gambled away this attitude of the German people. “Whatever the retaliation is the German people will not thereby he stirred to sympathy.’’