The Archive · 1939

German Troop Formation

Paris, Nov. 29.

Details of the disposition of German troops on the Western Front are given by M. Charles Morice in the "Petit Parisien" today. In each division, he says, battalions are placed one behind the other.

The first battalion, he continues, has the duty of holding advance posts, the second supports it, and the third is in 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 statement, "that in the first 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 and 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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