The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-01
Interpreting
The War .
BY KIRK r.. sumo

+on = 80" T VI Nazl military di,..
ter IN France fast approac5is OlSaS
utter rout is unfoldi7g bo ling az
world as the figures pour w ta'
the battle fronts there ro M ron
south, to out date Geners g' " Il. a1d
hower's recapitulation n Il'sa'
losses in men and fighting ENEMY men
ment since D-Day in N@ % eqalp'
even before it reached print in, mandy
Those official Allied fgn~s,
enemy personnel losses At " ,,ss.. pa
of 100000 men in France 81 b up"a'i
June 6 and August Is. His ro .."ee1
losses were proportionata '' e.
planes tanks, guns Of all Sort,
the thousand captured or 'r WHY %
The estimated equivalent I ot
German divisions has been de, ~
ed, cut to pieces or tran ,,,,'''
their certain doom in coaats sl4 I. %
s' :. AZ n.I'dny' And 10 SIM,
Tor 1t all the foe has only The rr.'
pect of an air-harried. tank.r,rr..'Y%
escape across the lowlandS o+ '1,a
GUM and Holland. with msny " o+ o'l'
thousands of Nazis to he absra I-s
to their fate in Allied or Fro .'a
patriot isolated pockets. nIn, WV. y.
prospect of an American cro,s -.
Of German frontiers througt +s
searbucken gap perhaps wiki, '
days or even hours. '''l
The last lingering doubt NJ q,
completeness of the Allied v,.. n'
in the north vanished with F;,,.
hower's disclosure Of the Allied ~,
in prisoners, enemy casusItie, ,r;
equipment and British punc.,,r. Va, a,
the potential Somme defen,ir.
front at Amiens. '''
The Nazi retreat front be+r.,.
the Channel ard the Disc was S4
IN two by the British two-dav drr.
from Seine bridgeheads 10 cro,
the Somme at Amiens. It is alma;
seemingly to cut through IN IN
Channel coast east of the Cali,
hump, through the heart Of the N.+
rocket bomb installations. Will,
thanking American First arm,
columns to the southeast and nav .
within 80 miles or less Of the Bsl
gian border extend the doUbA
fronted sweep.
Perhaps the deadliest Ari9
threat in the north, however can.
with the swift shifting Of the ANA
lean First army from the Sen.
theater below Paris to the DIX
front north and eeast of the cjy
1t has taken over the whole NORTH
ern face of the huge America
bulge eastward between the 0g
and the Loire previously held NJ
Patton's galloping Third army
That means that Patton force
being concentrated on the easten
and southeastern faces of the taca
And that way beyond CAP
tured Reims, Chalons and S.
Dizier lie the roads that convera
on the Saarbrucken gap, some
miles to the east. That way, hQ
lies the southeast lunge TO a jun,
ton with Patch's Franco-Amerca
Seventh army rampaging up tn
T'cnn valley from the Riviera and
already reported on the Franc
.W1ss frontier near Geneva.
Another German army. not ID
cluded in EisenhoWers report
being cut to pieces in the Rhm
operations. A junction of the ThM
and Seventh army would cut otta
remnants, seal all isolated Germ
garrison troops still in southe-
France south of the Loire Or WG
of the Rhone against escape
would also lend double strength
the power blow into Germany it&
through the SaarGrucken-BeF''
gaps for which the Third Arni
seems concentrating.
The situation for Germany
growing so desperate that condltn
al peace feelers are to be eZpeca
if they have hot already been ma''
Nor can the indicated Germ
weakness in the west fail to II
vive speculation that in the Ell
German leaders might Sesl5era9,
stage a total collapse there Will
still warding off the Russians
the east in hope of Allied lnsa
of Russian occupation Of the lna@
trial heart of the nation and
subsequent rift in Russlan'Alla
relations over peace terms.
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