BRAG BY GERMANS

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 3, 29 September 1942, Page 5

BRAG BY GERMANS

Forthcoming Attack On Britain

(Received September 28, 8 p.m.) LONDON, September 27. “A general settlement wltli Britain Is at hand,”'declared the German military spokesman, quoted by the Stockholm correspondent of “The Tinies.” He added that this would become possible by the Co-ordination of a submarine blockade with a large-scale air effort from Europe. “Britain will not be In a position to impede the development of the War," he said. "Germany’s war against Russia merely postponed the decisive battle against Britain, but Germany continues to coqsiddr fighting against Britain to be the main object of the wah" - “We are confident of -winning the battle for Stalingrad,” said the German Foreign Minister, Herr von Ribbentrop, in a speech on the second anniversary of the signing of the Axis 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 the increasing paralysis of Russis. ” ' Ribbentrop predicted greater efforts to prevent British and American supplies reaching Russia. “Two-thirds ot Russia’s 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, and her losses in dead, wounded, and prisoners total about 14,000,000. Russia is near-, ing 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."

“Europe One Factory.” “All Europe is One armament factory working for us. Against the 190,000,000 people of England and. America, from which they draw skilled worker's—plus the remainder of the decimated Russian workers —thq Axis Powers have 450,000,000, and their, disposal in the future will show whether Churchill’s bomb warfare against the civilian population was a good or a pad 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 .will deal finally with , this ‘British aircraft-carrier off Europe.’ i “The Axis in every respect now masters the situation. Time is now definitely working for the tripartite Powers.” / The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” says that propaganda experts there deduce from recent German broadcasts thdt Dr. Goebbels is losing his grip on Nazi propaganda and is becoming increasingly defensive, with fewer boasts and more warnings of impending perils. Goebbels, . imitating Mr. Churchill’s “blood, sweat, and tears” manner, is telling-the Germans that rough times are ahead.