NAZI PREPARATIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1939, Page 6

NAZI PREPARATIONS

ACTIVITIES ON WESTERN FRONT POSSIBILITY OF OFFENSIVE TWO MONTHS HENCE. GREATEST UNEASINESS CAUSED IN LUXEMBURG. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. December 27. The Christmas lull on the Western Front has ended. The fog has lifted, and both sides have sent out numerous reconnasisance parlies, particularly between the Luxemburg frontier and the Saar River, with the object of discovering whether the lull has been employed to make important changes or reinforce outposts. Contact with the enemy, involving sustained fighting, is reduced to a minimum. It is pointed out that another GO days at the most remain before winter conditions in the military sense cease to exist. The Allies must be prepared for an enemy offensive at the end of February at the latest. The Luxemburg correspondent of the -Daily Telegraph" says that the greatest uneasiness has been caused as a result of German activities along the frontier. Till the end of November the Germans were busy constructing pillboxes and erecting barbed-wire barriers along Moselle Valley from Wasserbillig to Remich (along Luxemburg’s eastern frontier). This brought in the Siegfried Line, a region that hitherto, had been without permanent defences, but the defensive nature of the constructions allayed fears of an invasion. However, since December 1 the inhabitants of Luxemburg have seen thousands of men enlarging and improving the German roads to the frontier. A new strategic road at a rightangle to the Moselle reaches the river six miles from Remich (on the Luxemburg south-east, frontier), but beyond the range of French guns. The Germans have sounded the entire length of the Rivers Our, Aauer and Moselle, apparently seeking fords. German staff officers also closely inspected all the 21 bridges along the uOmile frontier, blowing up two of them. The remainder were mined at the German end. The French official communique issued this evening states: "There was very marked activity on either side of patrols and reconnaissances between the Moselle and the Saar.” GOING TO MAGINOT LINE SIR SAMUEL HOARE AND LORD HANKEY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) RUGBY. December 28. Sir Samuel Hoare and Lord Hankey visited the headquarters of the R.A.F. in France on their way to the Maginot Line from Paris. WAR COST FRANCE & GREAT BRITAIN. (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) PARIS, December 28. The “Petit Bleu" states: "The war cost of France is 1434 dead and of Britain 2511. Our British friends offer not only machines, they offer themselves." DALADIER ATTACKED VIOLENT GERMAN PRESS ABUSE. PUBLIC ENEMY NO 3. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) COPENHAGEN. December 28. The "National Tidende" says that for the first time since the outbreak of war, the German Press directly and violent attacks M Daladier, declaring that his speech on December 2-1 aligns him with the worst warmongers in England. "He is a poisonmonger, a blasphemous liar, a first-class murderer and public enemy number three." (Mr Winston Churchill and Mr Chamberlain are. of course, public enemies numbers one and two. The "Borzen Zeitlin?;" says the answer will be a lightning onslaught and relentless war.