The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-10

The War .
BY klRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War

The last outposts OF Hitler,
less Reich are groaning u, W.,
mounting Allied-Russian r. 0s'
east, west and south Tbss 's
every indication that long i bst.. a
the first SHOWS of consao,f,. 9e'oG'
anywhere in Europe. the da ,5 l-y
break will come somewbero I-Slv.
the United Nations march ~ T . and
begin. " oeFlln
Trace out on any European N.Y..
the extent of the front dv;n r map
fact that the strain is fast NUN ri
to a breaking tenfJn is ion ' aS
to be missed. That front canno o+' a.
more than thinly manned ''', u
where, That is the genius Of ' y,
Russ;an-Allied master plan NJ a NJ
mulative, all. ound attack bato' W.
at Tehran and only now coo!s'
into full play. 1t was the factn. Y
the situation toward Mid-sen-,s,a.
Der that prompted War Secro t.'.
Simpson to indicate his own y
lief and that of Allied joint miT+s W
stats that the end is aIno.t
sight in Europe. "
Worked Ont T;r,;
He said that effect;ve :.
available to the enemy seem ta
sufficient for the task of proIor,. n.
defense" 1t was to arrive nj i 'sa
that condition that the 1sb '-',
Russian Allied military comm. ~
ments were framed the timir.
schedule for each phase of tho ,%
mulative assault on all fror,.
worked out. ''''
While battered comrades IN Il.
east, west and south stumble h.cl
wa-d under Allied and Rus,i.,
blows of steadily mounting som,
and power, strong Nazi forces mn,
stand FESTIVE and idle along III,
northern coast line from the nor-.
cape of Norway to the Sheldt =,
tuary in Belgium, They are pinrs.
to their defense stations unce-+a,
what new avalanche of Allied NM
er may sweep down upon them i
Scandinavia to bring them to az
ton.
For all practical purposes thoa
German troops are as much out q
action for any other purpose as /
penned in Allied war prisone
cages They are as unavailable tr
reinforcement Of buckling deter,
sive fronts elsewhere as are tts
German dead of the war litering A
thousand European battlefields in
useless human sacrifice to Ht
les shattered dream of world con.
quest.
At THU September week end
| there was ominous evidence for the
foe that for all his bitter retreats
in the west, the east and the south
in hope of "stabilizing' shorte,
defense fronts, his last barrie;
beyond German frontiers On all
three fronts were about to be cavet
in. By German admission the front
was whitfield down now in the Yves,
/ to run from the Sheldt Esuar
along the Mouse and the MoSsele
and the Rhine to the Swiss bofde.
And it was already deeply punctu'
ed by the Allies.
Yet only three at most Of ts
half dozen or more Allied armlA
available for the final blows in III
| west have yet reached it in force
The othera the Canadian arm u
the north and the Franco-AmcrNa
Seventh Army in the south STD
are busy hopping up as they ~
vance methodically to their assn
ed stations. EisenhoWer's ma@
air army was somewhere aWaI'
his call to action.
By German report a poWen-
Russian recommendation of toTca
in the critical Vistula-Bug- Na1'
sector in Poland just above war
saw is hammering its way co'
to a break-through down the Dan
zig corridor. Nazi advices say !
new Russian army has been organ
lied sN thrown into action lne'
to supplement the already trenep
dous Red power converglng AGAIN.
the relatively narrow gap bet~eSi
the Warsaw bend of the Vls'1
ard the Masueian Lakes sector
east Prussia.
That it is t/ld-picked tofa
equipped for swift blitzkrleg opF'
ations once the break-through h@I
of the Vistula has been acIlle''
goes without saying. At this Na,
ment it is there, in Irth cen'i4
Poland, that the first decisive 'u'
ture of over-strained Germa4 a.
Tense lines guarding the approacaaa
to frontiers of the Reich Nst,
seems most apt to come ailnous-
an Allied news blackout on ifl'I
diate developments on the MoSs',
! le-Meuse-Sheldt fronts m FRAN, !,
~lai,7m at the week eId iI''
significant portents.
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