London, Oct, 14. I[HE British Expeditionary Force in France is reported to be ready for any form of offensive Herr Hitler might decide take.
The season is now getting late for active operations. The weather will. soon be adverse to troop movements, and conditions for low-flying aircraft will deteriorate as the year advances. It is known Herr Hitler cannot afford to wait until the spring and a German attack may materialise within a few days.
The British force is said to be awaiting such an attack with confidence, Left alone by the Germans, it has been able to establish all its bases und lines of communication unmolested.
The reference which Mr, 'Leslie Here-Belisha, Secretary of State for War, made in an interview to the transportation of the Bri ish Expeditionary Force to France, draws attention to the successful accomplishment of a very' vulnerable undertaking, according to observers here.
The French, as well as the Germans, were quite ignorant of the dimension of the force until Mr. Hore-Belisha revealed it in Parliament.
'Undoubtedly the first outstanding achievement of the British Expedi~ tionary Force in France has been Its extraordinary ability to render Hiself Invisible, says Reuter's Special Correspondent with the' British field forees in France, who has Just arrived in the neighbour hood of General Headquarters from Paris by motor-car, He says the journey took him slong roads, through villages and towns, and across country where units of the British "army are in concentrated strength, and yet he not fee more than a handful of soldiers in khaki. "He adds that he id not see a single gun, although the whole region bristles with gun emplacements, Tu one village, in which a division was quartered, the correspondent saw one British plane apparently about to land, but there as no sign of an aerodrome or an He did see half a dozen British military lorries pulled" up under tome' trees, One had scribbled in chalk: "Hitler's "Hearse," while other had the inscription: for ever,"—Reuter,
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