INVASION OF EUROPE

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 November 1943, Page 5

INVASION OF EUROPE

MINISTERIAL REMINDER. RUGBY. November 23. The Germans could in the past assemble more divisions on any iron! than the United Nations could possibly land in three weeks. Lord Croft, Joint Under-Secretary 01. State for War, declared, speaking, m London. “Next month or riexi year that may no longer be True,/ he added, “We may be able to light on something like equal term-:, and. snipping may become available to open _un. a great new venture winch Will fie bloody and test us as nothing. most certainly will be undertaken, and pressed through to victory.” Every hundred miles the enemy was driven back, however, the nearer the circumference of defence was brought to bases and reserves, and the more easily the Germans would be able to supply the firing line and switch reserves speedily by rail from the centre to any threatened point. The Allies could only reach the enemy over seas and to effect fresh lodgments on defended coastline, as Salerno and Dieppe proved, was a costly and difficult operation, demanding a very great concentration of men and shipping. This showed that what was probably by far the grimmest task lay before the Allies, for a fierce wounded animal was far more dangerous defending its lair than when thousands of miles from home. The most desperate and perhaps the final phase was yet to open. Of the outcome he had no doubt, but it required the concentrated willpower, determination and valortr of the whole people in support cf the fighting mem