SECOND FRONT PLANS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13057, 27 January 1943, Page 3

SECOND FRONT PLANS

RENEWED DISCUSSION Britain and United States "Hitler On Defensive In Air, And On Land" London. Jan. 24. Plans for a second front are again being discussed by Britain and the United States, says the Daily Express diplomatic correspondent. President Roosevelt has made it clear that attacks against the A::is may be made at many points simultaenously. Heavy sustained air attacks on the European mainland are part of the Allies' offensive plan, the correspondent says, and adds that it is now considered certain that to some extent the Germans are withdrawing voluntarily from parts of Russia in order to take advantage of shorter supply lines. The Germans may attempt to go over to static defence and content themselves with holding the Russian army while freeing big forces for the defence of Germany from direct attacks from the west and south. The reluctance of the German air force to make large-scale attacks on Britain is. seen as indicating their anxiety to conserve planes and trained men for use against a direct Allied assault rather than an actual shortage of planes. Hitler is on the defensive in the air and on the land. He dare not gamble his air strength in ordinary air raids. John Garvin, writing in the Sunday Express, says 1943 holds immense opportunities for the Allies. "We dare not depend more upon glorious Russia than upon ourselves," he states. "Russia alone cannot win. Stalin himself- would be thhe first to emphasise this warning. The whose vast Russian offensivo was inspired and organised. That is perhaps the chief secret of its success. No mightier human agency is known than organisation and inspiration together."