Springville Herald | 1943-12-09 | Page 4 | Front Hears of No Winter Line

FRONT nEARS OF NO WINTER LINE Not long ago the news from the Italian battlefront told us of a German "winter line." We don't know where the idea originated but Herbert L. Matthews, Mat-thews, writing for the New York Times, says that at the front one hears no talk of a German "winter line." One staff officer, he adds, when asked what he thought of the so-called so-called winter line, replied: "A lot of baloney." The basis for the term, it appears, ap-pears, is found in the admissidn of German prisoners that they received re-ceived orders to hold the high ground before Montecessino for eight weeks, or until Spring. Mr. Matthews thinks this unimportant un-important because the "Germans have been given 'stand or die' orders since we landed at Salerno."