ARMED MIGHT OF GERMANY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20068, 14 October 1939, Page 6

ARMED MIGHT OF GERMANY

PLAN TO EVACUATE CIVILIANS ALLIED FORCES READY AND CONFIDENT FURTHER NAZI PATROLS REPULSED (Elec. Tel, Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. October 14, 1.20 pan.) LONDON, October 10. The Secretary of Stale for War, Mr. L. llore-Belisha, staled to-day that fiermany was massing troops on the Western Front, but the Allies were ready and confident of meeting any eventuality. The condition o! the British Expeditionary Force was magnificent. Messages from Paris state that, fog and rain have superseded the sunny weather on the Western Front, reducing the former slight activity to a minimum and confining the German operations to result less patrols. An official communique issued in Paris says that the night was calm along the greater part of the front. Enemy patrols were repulsed in the Warndt forest.

After the Premier of France, M. Daladicr, had made a statement oil the war position ,to the French Cabinet to-day, the President, M. Lebrun, thanked him for expressing, in his recent speech, the unanimous feelings and will of the whole of the French nation.

A communique issued in Berlin states that activity on the Western Front was confined to artillery and local patrols. The French blew up bridges at Winter,sdort, Breisaeh and Ncucnburg.

The Berlin correspondent of the Amsterdam paper Telegraafs states that the German Chancellery seems to be preparing for Herr Hitler to take up his headquarters near the Siegfried Line, which is interpreted to portend an aggravation ’of the situation on the Western Front. The inhabitants of Aachen, Dusseldorf, and other Rhineland cities have been ordered to prepare for evacuation.