The Archive · 1940

Major Nazi Drive Expected Soon

Paris Believes Reich — May Mobilize All Her — Men for 300 Divisions

Rotterdam, Jan. 14

The present large-scale restrictions on passenger train traffic in Germany may be the prelude to intensified military activity, according to a German source quoted by the Rotterdam paper "Maasbode" in a despatch from the Dutch frontier.

It is stated that inside Germany, the people generally expect a new military move as soon as the weather clears. The concentration of German troops along the Dutch frontier, which formerly ceased near Coalsfeld, has now spread out in a northerly direction so that the Westphalian town of Gronau is filling with s the railway station ther to traffic.

"Certain uneasiness is among the people in Germany, principally caused by the feeling that the German pt and radio are withholding events of world importance," the despatch adds.—Reuter,

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