oil. General strain will be due also to a number of other factors, e.g. lack of maintenance and repair of plant; disorganisation of transport; location of stocks in inconvenient places; administrative difficulties due to shortage of personnel; sabotage in occupied territories. (I) Scale. Disagree with American views. All our evidence indicates Germans fully extended during winter. On frontage 2,000 miles in face Russian pressure 40 70 divisions fantastic. (a) Estimate 179 German divisions now available for a spring offensive on the Russian front, including following:20 armoured divisions 21 motorised and light divisions 5 mountain divisions 2 cavalry divisions 131 infantry divisions, of which 119 belong to the field army.