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Show GERMAN ARMY USES TljlT' PLAN Why Soldiers Come Fresh to Attack Is Explained by British Officer SLEEP THUS PROVIDED Soldiers Who Are Not Al lowed to Slumber Cannot Fight in Fit Form By A BEITISH OFFICER Spec a Cab e to The T buna LONDON Oct 10 The secret of the tremendous German rush through Belf uu and on to the outsk rts of j Par s now appears to be explained The Ger an army was organ zed as are the worl ers n a factory or coal m ne that s they worl ed in two sh fts Thro eh out the advance from L ege half the army was sleepm" wh 1st the other half was attack ng or advanc ng and by these tact cs they kept the albes con stantly aw a o and wore them out by sheer want of sleep The fall of Namur was almost en t rely due to tho two sh ft tact cs of the Ge man army The bombardment of that town it w 11 be remembered was cont nuous for three days from Thursday August 20 until 5 p m on the follow ng Sunday Tire Incessant From the moment the attack was opened it waB cont nuous and over whelming Forts are sa d to have been bombarded at the rate of twenty shells i m nute for at least seventy hours and the members of the garr son who were not killed or wounded were re duced to phys cal WTecks by want of sleen It is obvious that the German attack ers must have worked m two sh fts to have carried out such a bombardment Even if the gunners were beyond the range of Belgian fire and safe from attack they could not have kept it up for seventy consecutive hours In the garr son of Namur sleep would have been impossible under such a ter rifle cannonade and want of sleep is a stronger eng ne of war than even the German 11 inch howitzers Plan Well Followed From Namur right down through the northeastern part of France the Ger man advance was conducted on the two shift pr nc pie wh ch means that twice a day when the shift that has lust slept comes up to the froDt to relieve the shift whose time for sleep nas come on these two oc cas ons the fir ng 1 ne s re nforced to the full strength of the army and vast attacks can be launched These it will be observed have been the tactics employed, for the great German rushes have not been cont nuous al though the general movement forward dur ng that stage of the war was Only sold ers who have fought through arduous campa gns can reafze that sleep s a th ng to which the bravest soldiers must eventually suo cumb It is a strugKe to beat off the stealthy approach of sleep only for twenty four hours seventy hours is longer than most human be ngs can re 8 st it and by that t me it is so strong that it outweighs all other con s derations |