GERMAN CLAIMS

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23755, 29 September 1942, Page 5

GERMAN CLAIMS

CONFIDENCE IN FALL OF STALINGRAD

RUSSIAN LOSSES OF MEN, FOOD, AND MATERIALS

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright.) , (Rec. 6 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 27. “We are confident of winning the battle for Stalingrad,” said the German Foreign Minister (von Ribbentrop) in a speech at the second anniversary of the Three-Power Pact. "When we take Stalingrad our most dangerous antagonist will suffer a blow from which he will never recover.

“We are ready for more Dieppes. A second front attempt will no longer be able to check ß Russia’s increasing paralysis.” He predicted greater efforts to prevent British and American supplies from reaching Russia. “Two-thirds of Russian supplies of - grain and meat, the whole of its sugar, and 60 per cent, of its coal have been seized,” he said. “Russia has lost 90,000,000 inhabitants through our territorial gains. Her losses in dead, wounded, and prisoners total about 14,000,000. Russia is nearing exhaustion in manpower, food, and raw materials.

“By the conquest of the Ukraine, and the Kuban the food situation for the whole of Europe has been secured. For the future all Europe will be one arm- , ament factory working for us. Against 190,000,000 people in England and America from which they draw skilled workers—plus the remainder of the de - cimated Russian workers —the Axis Powers have 450,000,000 at their disposal. "The future will show whether Churchill’s bomb warfare against civilian populations was a good or a bad idea. Every single bomb, every home destroyed, and every dead person makes the Germans more determined to make the British pay. The time will come when we shall deal finally with this ‘British aircraft-carrier off the coast of Europe.’ “The Tripartite Pact was concluded first of all as a warning to the United States. As Roosevelt and his Jewish warmongering clique continues to drive Americans against their will to war it is necessary that they should know with whom they have to deal. “The Axis Powers are in every respect now masters of the situation. The Russian war has not exhausted the Axis. On the contrary it has hardened them and made them secure everywhere. We shall continue striking against Russia until all the danger threatening Europe from Bolshevism is abolished. “In the Mediterranean and in North Africa we shall give the British no rest. In western Europe large armies stand ready to nip in the bud all landing attempts. “Time is now definitely working for the Tripartite Powers.” Settlement With Britain

‘‘A general settlement with Britain is at hand,” declared a German military spokesman, quoted by the Stockholm correspondent of ‘‘The Times.” ‘‘This has become possible by coordination of the submarine blockade with a large-scale air effort from Europe,” he said. ‘‘Britain will not be in a position to impede the development of the war. Germany’s war against Russia has merely postponed the decisive battle against Britain, but Germany continues to consider fighting against Britain the main object of the war.” The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” says: “Propaganda experts deduce from recent German broadcasts that Goebbels is losing his grip. Nazi propaganda is becoming increasingly defensive, with_ fewer boasts and more warnings of impending perils. Goebbels is imitating Mr Churchill’s ‘blood, sweat, and tears’ manner, telling the Germans that rough times are ahead. “It is also significant that references to Russia in German broadcasts in the last fortnight have dropped from 22 to 11 per cent., including such remarks as: ‘The Russians habitually do the tactically unexpected,’ or an explanation that Stalingrad had not been taken because Hitler disliked killing men.”