SIEGFRIED LINE

Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22492, 30 October 1944, Page 5

SIEGFRIED LINE

AMERICAN DUPLICATE OFFICER’S REVELATION ENEMY SURRENDER SURE (Official Wireless) (Received Oct. 30, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 29 Duplicates of the Siegfried Line fortifications were built in Maryland, United States, to try out the American ammunition that was to blast the pillboxes. This was revealed to a correspondent at the Supreme Headquarters by Major-General S. B. Sayler, Chief of the United States Ordnance Service in the European theatre of operations, when he stated: “I can honestly and definitely say that we have superior weapons thlat will eventually bring the enemy to unconditional surrender. Our weapons are more powerful and more accurate and can hurl projectiles at greater ranges than any comparable pieces that the Germans can muster. “French civilian firms are overhauling tanks and engineers are retreading tyres and servicing batteries, and captured German 88-mm. guns are being turned on the enemy by Americans fighting along the Siegfried Line.” Major-General Sayler said that the war will end with one and a-half months’ supplies in hand. Ordnance in liberated France and Belgium had eight depots, covering 826 square miles, with 730 roads, and could deal with 14,000 tons a day. A total of 1,600,000 tons had been received in France. The American forces had fired 50 rounds of ammunition per second since the start of the invasion.