Minor Revolt Near Siegfried Line

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 210, 5 September 1944, Page 5

Minor Revolt Near Siegfried Line

GERMANS HOPING TO STAGE DEFENCE Received Monday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 4. A minor revolt is reported to have . occurred when groups of German troops, rusliing for the safety of the Siegfried Line, were held up at tho German frontier and ordered to return to form a defensive line against the ' advancing Americans, stated the Daily Telegraph’s correspondent. This was a suicide mission and the retreating Germans knew that it was the German High Command which sent them Dock probably to gain time for more reinforcements to reach the Siegfried Line. Sufficient details are not yet available to indicate the strength of tho revolt, but it is regarded as another instance of tho declining German morale. It is now only a question ot 1 time before the Allies begin beating on the gates of Germany. The bitterness with which pockets or Germans are fighting delaying actions ' suggests that the Germans are rushing ' up reinforcements hoping to stand on this defensive line. However, the American First Army sweeping through Belgium may outflank the Siegfried ’ Line from the north. The Germans appear to be in a state of complete clytos. We no longer find villages and towns destroyed as in ] Normandy. The Allied advance is so ' fait that it is overhauling the enemy 1 before they are able to demolish any- ] thing of strategic Importance. ] COMPLETE DISASTER FOR GERMANS “You can quote me as saying that the whole thing is a brilliant victory for us and a complete disaster for the Nazis,” said General Dempsey in an ; interview with the Daily Telegraph’s correspondent with the British Second ' Army. “There is no opposition. It is ] complete disintegration. Our original 1 plan has never gone wrong.” Mona has been pinched off by 1 American armour and is ours, but all j around the city heavy German forces are furiously endeavouring to break out eastwards, says the Associated Press’s correspondent. Our tanks torched Mons on Saturday night after advancing 130 miles from the Marne within six days. The Allies have captured the village of Perle inside Germany near the junction of the Franco-German-Luxembourg frontiers, according to the Stockholm Svenska Dagbladet’s Berne i correspondent. 1 Reuter points out that this is not * confirmed elsewhere, but Perle is only a 12 miles northeast of Thionville where *

the Germans on Saturday reported that fighting was occurring. SUCCESS OF ALLIED PROPAGANDA A new method of distributing frontline propaganda to the Germans ha 3 recently been introduced. Previously leaflets pointing out the Impossibility of their position and the need for urgent surrender have been fired in shells. The new leaflets are directed at German troops by special bomb 3 dropped on notified targets by fighterbombers. A large proportion of the bomb-load of leaflets frequently consists of safe conducts written in English and German for Germans wishing to surrender. Sixty-five per cent, of the prisoners taken by the Canadians from Llsleux to the Seine were found to possess them. Parisians can now get a summary of the latest world news by dialling a telephone number. The news summary is automatically read from records in slow, easily-understood French. The records are brought up-to-date hourly. One Parisian told the New York Times’ Paris correspondent yesterday: “Soon I hope to ring up and hear ‘boom, Hitler’s quit!’ ’’ GREAT MONTH FOE T.A.F. August has been the greatest month for Air Marshal Conlngham’s Second Tactical Air Force which can claim as a share in the victory 10,600 of Germany’s sorely needed transport vehicles and 850 of its tanks. Thunderbolts operating against German traffic moving eastward from Belgium on Sunday afternoon destroyed or damaged 200 motor vehicles, 64 locomotives and 75 railcars.