GERMAN DEFENCE
EFFORT TO STEM ALLIED ATTACKS REGULAR ARMY TROOPS USED, PROBLEMS IN PROSPECT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK, September 12. The Paris correspondent of the "New York Times” says that the Germans’ offensive yesterday is reported to have been entrusted to relatively important regulat army troops, who advanced several hundred yards before being halted by a French counter-attack. The Germans will strive to delay a retreat into the West Wall. Once below the ground their reaction to attacks would be restricted to artillery fire, for the points from which sorties may be made would be under constant fire. The experience in the World War shows that it is difficult to keep troops, controlled when they are in what amounts to a prison and are pounded relentlessly by heavy guns, not knowing what is happening outside and knowing that barrages have been laid down to cut off their retreat and prevent reinforcements arriving.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1939, Page 7
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153GERMAN DEFENCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1939, Page 7
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