London, Oct. 26, French military critics state that the recent activity on the Western Front shows the eagerness of the Germans to regain the valuable heights still held by the French south-east of the Warndt Forest, which have been attacked three times since Monday, These attacks have been effectively repulsed, Danish reports from Berlin declare that Herr Hitler and German Army chiefs held a conference yesterday.
German troops, they add, are still being moved to the Western Front.
French critics believe that the prolonged artillery preparation. customary in the last War, will be discarded for brief, intensified fire.
This fire, they continue, will be designed to blind the defence before an onslaught is launched with every available form of arms.
Special efforts, they add, will be made to disorganize the rear of the defence to prevent supplies and reinforcements from arriving, These tactics, according to the French critics, were eminently successful in Poland, but conditions then cannot be compared with those of the Western Front at present—Reuter,
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