Double German Attack in 1937

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 42, 20 February 1936, Page 7

Double German Attack in 1937

Without Declaration of War

FRENCHWOMAN’S PREDICTION

United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph.—Copyright.

Paris, Feb. is

Writing in L’Oeuvre, Madame Tabouis predicts a German attack on Holland and Czechoslovakia in the middle of .1937, without a declaration of war. The General Staffs of the principal European countries have agreed that Germany has adopted a definite plan of campaign, Madame Tabuois declares, which envisages three German columns entoring Holland, the first crossing the Meuse and attacking the Albert Canal, with Calais as the objective, the second advancing on both banks of the Rhine, with the Dutch first lines of defence as an objective, before mobilisation could be effected, and the third, preceded by tanks and armoured cars, to drive across Holland aiming at the separation of the north and south sections of the country. The plan is designed to effect complete occupation of Holland within 21 hours, enabling an immediate attack to be made upon Belgium and the seizing of tho North Sea ports in order to prevent Britain aiding France. Maamo Tabouis adds that Germany also is planning fortifications in the Rhineland with tho object of preventing Franco aiding Czechoslovakia, which tho Gouerul Staff believes it can occupy within ten days. Then, according to the plans, the Germans would continue to drive through Rumania and attack the Ukraine. The Daily Telegraph’s diplomatic writer says that the French Government is consulting Britain with respect to measures for meeting the Rhineland menace, and feels that Germany should be warned before she moves. Tho French aro also considering whether any German action should not bo met by further reinforcements and garrisons on the French frontier. Holland Arms Received Thursday, 1 a.m. THE HAGUE, Feb. 19. The Netherlands Chamber by 60 votes to 29 passed a bill creating a special defence fund of £6,500,000 in view of the increasing European tension. Modern fortifications will be erected along the rivers Meuse, Rhine and. Scheldt, especially near tho importand bridgeheads, also new coastal defences. The air force will also be strengthened. Soviet Warning To Germany Received Thursday, I a.m. LONDON, Feb. 19. Tho Manchester Guardian’s Moscow correspondent says M. Radck, the foremost Bolshevik publicist, in an article in Izvcstia undertakes tho unfamiliar task to justify the Anglo-Franeo Belgian plans to increaso armaments. Without echoing tho former cries of imperialistic designs M. Radek commends the wisdom of prepa-ing to meet possible aggression from uermany, which, he says, intends to strike the first blow in the East. He emphasises that although Nazi adventurers are noisily campaigning against the Soviet they may choose the path of least; resistance and the Soviet union is not that. Britain Is Wise SOVIET OPINION OP REARMAMENT. MOSCOW, February 18. The newspaper “Izvcstia” expresses the opinion that Britain is wise in rearming and questioning Herr Hitler's promise that the Nazi army would only move eastward.