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Show -J ' . German Motor Warfare By Richard Waldo ni 6bfM .Vo9Rlfi NEW YORK True picture of German mechanised technique in Poland ia slowly being pieced together from belated reports filtering in daily. This Information Informa-tion comes at first hand from competent military students and gives radio communication a role which is hard to exaggerate. Specific observers among Polish Pol-ish refugees report that the nasi tank squadrons, following a radical rad-ical Innovation, roared on and on without thought of maintaining communieationa with the rear. Yet in innumerable cases when confronted by massed artillery fire the tanks were Joined by bombers out of nowhere within 10 to 15 minutes. Bombers having hav-ing silenced the gun emplacements, emplace-ments, tanks went on. Artillery, motorized infantry, tanks and aircraft would mass, attack, deploy and reassemble-always reassemble-always at the right spot and in circumstance that ruled out possibility pos-sibility of prearranged plan. To the observers it appeared that tactical decisions were made on the Instant by a seeing eye on another an-other planet with a perspective of all Poland. The answer Is control of the air for unlimited plane observation observa-tion by the generale plus radio equipment which could reach trench soldiers, cyclists, truck drivers, tanks and bombers as quickly as orders parade ground. Mop-up operations on the other hand were based on office plans made far from and months before be-fore the battle. It was dearly rehearsed re-hearsed routine. As soon as motorized infantry cleared a position, the youngsters of the war, youths and the labor corps, would move in to clear the debris, bury the dead and provision provi-sion the garrison troops. Of vast importance were the metal patrols, pa-trols, a system for gathering all available metal scrap for re-shipment re-shipment to Germany. Next phase went to organizing organiz-ing committees, officials of aemi-clvllian aemi-clvllian status whose Job was to exploit every resource of conquered con-quered territory and make them available to the reich within a matter of days. This organizing group moved in. In fact, with a few battalions of migratory laborers la-borers in time to harvest potato po-tato and sugar beet crops still in the ground. An upward spurt in Russo-Japanese Russo-Japanese trade has bankers wondering. won-dering. It began shortly before the Manchurtan understanding and has spiraled ever since. Local analysts would not lift an eye- ' brow If Tokyo and Moscow had ' finally found a basis far a vast exchange of trade between the two controlled economies. In this connection German engineers en-gineers are already enlarging the freight facilities of the Trane-Siberian Trane-Siberian railroad. Thai to Germany Ger-many ia a potential ateel lifeline life-line extending, Poland eliminated, eliminat-ed, from Berlin to Japanese waters. American airmen with good European connections understand un-derstand that a fleet of German planes will shortly go into service serv-ice on regular schedule both ways across Russia to the Tel-low Tel-low sea. It may all add np to this: Costly and cumberaome aa it would be, Germany would be able to tap the far east market aa well aa the Russian, transporting transport-ing for the full route over Russian Rus-sian territory. At Ita eastern end the British blockade would be stymied. More or less seriously certain financial analysts are predicting predict-ing that the Russian ax will now hew out some naval gain ' in the Black Sea area. Seriously Seri-ously because (1 Russia's richest rich-est domain border that water; (2) because egress Is always at the mercy of neighboring states; (3) because ten generations of Russians have had the same objective, ob-jective, control of key points, principally Constanta in Ru-manla Ru-manla and- the Dardanelles in Turkey. Executives of a legal firm with a vast international law business have Just about decided to leave the books on the shelves and give nothing but political advice. Clients are European shippers, traders and commercial bankers. Most of the queries involve the status of neutrals in many type of transactions. It's the word "neutrality" that la baffling the lawyers. Jtaly is a neutral, sells everything every-thing from saw-toothed bayonet to poison gas. Switzerland Is a neutral, behaves more humbly ' than Grotlus ever Imagined. Russia Rus-sia la the neutral that took half the country that Britain and France went to war to defend. Yet Russia's shipping la as safe as Liberia's. The Scandinavian countries are neutrals, but are running blockades round the clock cheerfully accepting sunken ships against the net profit at the end of the year. The U. S. is a neutral but here the attorneys reach for the bottle. Copyright, McClure Syndicate |