The Archive · 1939

German Troop Formation

Paris, Nov. 20.

Details of the disposition of Ger man troops on the Western Front are given by MI Charles Morice in the "Polit Parisien" today. In each die vision, he says, battalions are placed tone behind the other.

The first battalion, he continues, nce posts, the third reserve and resting.

Men forming the first battalion, M. Morice declares, are specialised to undertake all reconnaissances, however long their division remains at the Front.

Referring to the Allied economic warfare, M. Morice quotes an official French staiement, "that in the frst nine weeks of the War, the Navy examined 1,000,000 tons of goods destined for the Reich."

The Germans, he adds, "who can only control navigation in the Baltic fand in a small part of the North Sea, seized or examined 235,000 tons."—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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