In the still apparently divided state of Nazi counsels, the governing factor {ig likely to be, the internal condition of Germany. The public Is longing for something spectacular.
Whatever Herr itler's._ decision may be, the Allied commanders are reported 10 be confident, Their troops are better officered and trained and are at Toast as well equipped as the Germans. French trenches and artillery from Lauterberg to Sierek fare more formidable, if anything, than in the last Great War.
Writing from the headquarters of a British, infantry battalion holding 4 sector line on the Western Front, Router's Special Correspondent. describes the digging of first-line and communication " trenches, "the erecting of barbed wire entangle. ments and the manning of pill boxes fand blockhouses. "These solid emo placements contain armaments for destroying German tanks and are being so placed that each covers a wide field of fire. They face cunnningly contrived traps. from which no floundering vessel can hope to extricate itself. Mechanieal exeavae tors dig these pits with an ease that astonishes old soldiers who had to. serape holes with a small, manual entrenching tool.—Reuter.
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