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Show HITLER PLANS 'LIGHTNING' WAR LONDON, Sept. 6 OJ.Rt Military Mili-tary men here say Adolf Hitler's strategy in the European war is to drive his armies in a series of "al lout' 'thrusts In the east hoping to crush the Polish army before French-British pressure on the Western front can become effective. ef-fective. Thus far the success of the "lightning war'' seems problematical. problemati-cal. From information available from both sides on the eastern front, military authorities consider that the Pole have done extremely wil lin blocking the tempo of the German advance, in the light of their strategic disadvantnge at the begtning of the war. It started with the Germans half encircling Poland from the Baltic to Slovakia. Slo-vakia. Present indications are that the German General's staff's idea of smashing Polish resistane within two or three weeks seems destined to fail. There has not been the slightest indication of collapse of the Polish Po-lish army. On the contrary, they are carefully withdrawing thei-main thei-main forces within their naturally strategic defenses each of the Vistula Vis-tula and Bug rivers. Meanwhile, the British, b; strewing 9,000,000 propaganda leaflets over the German area where disaffection might be expected, ex-pected, arc trying to sap German morale at home. |