End of War Cannot be Far Off
GERALAN ARMY DISASTROUSLY CHEWED UP Received Tuesday, 7 p.m. NEW YORK, Sept. 5. “Authoritative military observers consider that the German defeat in France is so farreaching that they doubt seriously whether the enemy will be able to make a prolonged defence of the Siegfried Line, ’ ’ says the New York Times’ Washington correspondent. “It is pointed out: Firstly: The German Army in France has been even more disastrously chewed up than the general public realises and it certainly is no longer considered an effective military machine. Germany has not the reserves to constitute a new army for adequate defence. Secondly: Germany’s supply lines are too vulnerable from the air and her industrial front'is ruined. Thirdly: The German defence strategy has proved to be badly conceived. “Bearing these premises in mind military circles opine that the end of the war cannot be far off, meaning considerably less that the four months which Mr. Patterson (Assistant Secretary of State), the vociferous foe of over-optimism, predicted last week. ’ *
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Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 211, 6 September 1944, Page 4
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