The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-12
interpreting
The ar .
BY klRkE L. SIMPSON
associated Press War An,,

w. war Analvs,
mere are broad intimation :, ~"
German and high placed n. ISoa
military sources alike that a. Allied
,anatlcal demands from Berlin Tr'p m'
Nazi commander in norts. 'a'
France has sensed his da u',.a''a
development and begun r ssl O
to the seine-perhsps too lat. as''
That was the purport ot s ="
Is WELL message relaved :. ap
troops by General Mou M 70 hi,
Allied field commander in 'SST uy
Enemy armies from tbe 81 ~ " ance,
coast to the Loire were in nIsl mel
way, he said, with Allied d. Dad
heads round behind them IN , a,e
places and some of them NJ many
not get away" may
Nazi broadcasts mora tb,
hrmed that Montgomery 1 thn s0A
nail sketch of the situation "q Tl
told OF multiple American co,, nne'
wheeling northeastward fro uUiumn
!unglng stride up the Loire vs aIsl
feeling for contacts with Cans nS.s'
on the Allied left of the linz Il.
l
would encircle the whole cen ra
segment of the main German ' en.
IN France, perhaps 3OO.OoO st r,ia'
Allied strategic bombing onsrs
lions far behind the enemv 't tsls,
mad the same meaning. Every l raa
yard and junction, road huh Id. .aa
orldge east of the Seine throu u.a
northeastern France and the I on
countries was target while , ~s
port bombers blasted alonp ' ~.
Seine and west of the river Ne NJ.
avenue of enemy Reinforcement y, W
escape from Paris to the SEA wv.
being overlooked. ""
Most of all German s,,rror,..
of British invested Thury Harco' ,,
in the little hills of Normandy a.
the Canadian right reflected tS \.
beginning of possible Nazj mill.
tary debacle in France. Mass Nj.
engagement" moves by the fc, :,
pull out of the indicated r,nhrl,
trap set for him without either n,
power to shelter his retreating mi
unns or armor to halt Allied tank
lunges at his communication iuo
ula veins in the deep rear mps.
become a desperate and BLOODY
business. Given good weather 4
could give massed Allied air DOW.
er its greatest field day Of IN,
war, make the Seine and its firth.
utaries run red with German blond
For the significant word in Mont.
gomery's message was 'manyn
He so described the fast-movjns
mechanical columns surging down
into enemy rear echelons from the
north but even more critically up
from the south. Just where each
deadly armored threat is at any
moment Montgomery must know,
but the Germans do not, nor where
at his word each will next turn 10
achieve maximum results from the
expanding break-through.
The Montgomery trap is appar
emily a many iawed affair. BY his
own word it is yawning first to
chew-up the bulk Of the German
army in northwestern France and
secondly to take Paris in its nav
Somewhere in France now Mont
gomery's commander, General Eli.
senhower, has set UP his Supreme
Allied Headquarters. 1t is a fair
assumption that its primary con.
Germ even now is not the battle in
the Seine Loire basins coming
swiftly to its climax; but what s
to follow.
Eisenhower gave a hint Of how
the battle is to be fought on beyort
Paris and the Seine. in the low
countries that still house enemy
robot bombs batteries. when h
merged his massed air and sub
stantial ground forces into one sep
arate army under single command
to strike swiftly and terribly al
long range even far behind enemy
front lines.