GERMAN RETREAT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 57, 5 September 1944, Page 5

GERMAN RETREAT

MADE AGAINST ORDERS

HIGH COMMAND LOSES GRIP (By^ Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Rec. 9,30 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 4. "The German High Command has completely lost its grip on the situation," said General Dempsey, commander of Jhe British Second Army, in an interview ■with war correspondents, "The German retreat is taking place against the High Command's orders." A Nazi spokesman on the Berlin radio :told- the^GeriiiSß.. people■Xtoday that they would have to* "stick ' it; through." He said that if necessary they must hold put in the last corner of Germany, until it became technically possible for the German High Command to launch its counter-mea-sures.. Another radio . spokesman said: "Every German must be warned that the slightest sign of wavering and weakness now will present the enemy with victory. We are fighting for our bare existence. FEARS OF A SPLIT. "The enemy, is out to split our nation, and is flooding us with a veritable thunderstorm of propaganda about his victories." Hitler is in direct control of the preparations to defend Germany, says Alan Moorehead, "Daily Express" correspondent. Writing from the former headquarters in France of Field-Mar-shal yon Kluge, Moorehead says: "Hitler had a direct telephone line to headquarters, and recently called many times each day. Every decision was referred directly to him. "Through these headquarters, the German commanders had been appealing again and again for permission to retire. Hitler constantly refused. He called his commanders cowards, and ordered them to stand and die where they were." ECHO OF CHURCHELL. ' The German deputy Press chief has called on the German people to keep themselves in readiness for what he calls "the people's war within the German borders." He said that the German people were watching the war move nearer to their frontiers, and would arm themselves'to meet the war wherever it came. Without acknowledging his debt to Mr. Churchill, he said the Germans j would fight from every field, every hill, every village, and every house.