MEXICAN TROOPS FOR OVERSEAS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1942, Page 5

MEXICAN TROOPS FOR OVERSEAS

NEW YORK, October 31

The Mexico City correspondent of the "New York Times" learns authoritatively that the Mexican Government has decided to send troops to the overseas batllefronts. Several raechfmised division:;, equipped with the most modern weapons, are already being trained with the co-operation of the United States High Command.

ler's summer and autumn offensive. Whatever happens now cannot compensate the German High Command for the last ten weeks' frustration. Observers consider that the Germans must completely reduce Stalingrad within a fortnight or the entire campaign will be jeopardised. That the Red Army will launch a counter-offensive when the Allies strike in the West was the hint -given by M. Alexandrov, a member of the executive of the Communist Party, in an article in "Pravda." Powerful reserves which will then be thrown against the Germans will assist the Allied forces to consolidate their hold on the Continent, he said. M. Alexandrov said that the Stalingrad fighting was significant because it was causing severe casualties to the Germans. Also, it was completely dislocating the Germans' strategic plan for 1942. WINTER DRIVE FORECAST. Hitler is planning a winter campaign in the Caucasus, with twin drives against Batum and Baku, designed to break through towards Teheran, Kix-kuk. and Mosul, according to information received by the Istanbul correspondent, of the "New York Times," Ray Brock, from a neutral observer just arrived from Germany. The German armies on the eastern front, he says, are facing a serious shortage of oil and petrol which has not been relieved despite the reassembling of dismantled refineries transported from Western Europe and the beginning of the utilisation of the Maikop and Krasnodar, oilfields. The Germans, he adds, have abandoned the almost hopeless programme of driving over the Caucasus range, and will concentrate on campaigns on the Black Sea and Caspian coasts. The time-table for the break-through into the Middle East is reported to, be New Year's Day.