GERMANS DESPERATE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 86, 22 January 1942, Page 5

GERMANS DESPERATE.

RUSSIANS MUST BE STOPPED STOCKHOLM, Jan. 20. An article in the German press under the heading “Defensive Battles in the Bast” states: “Tile onrushing en? emy must be stopped, no matter where or how. At no point have Stalin’s storming hordes taken a single village which the Germans have not defended to the utmost. The German defenders do not know when the human flood will cease surging around them. They only know that somewhere in the rear, their nation’s powerful forces are creating a gigantic new arsenal for fresh offensives which will bing victory. The Bolsheviks are staking all on one card. The human reservoirs of the eastern steppes are being thrown in in the hope of .overwhelming the front. Fresh Russian waves daily bring more difficulties, but victory will be achieved, in spite of all.” The Berlin radio states: “Stalin apparently intends to carry on this very hard winter campaign. The Russians’ attacks now extend along the entire Donetz front, but so far they have been unsuccessful. The Luftwaffe is playing a big part in operations in the Crimea, where the fighting is developing unfavourably for the Russians.”