GERMANY CAN WIN

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 September 1944, Page 5

GERMANY CAN WIN

“HITLER’S OWN VIEW.”

LONDON, September 22

Hitler still believes that Germany can win the war, according to Dr. Schmidt, head of the Press Department of the German Foreign Office. Giving “Hitler’s own view of the war,”''Schmidt said: “No longer can military standards alone be applied in gauging the prospects of victory. Those who previously declared that the war was lost for Britain when France went down, or that the Soviet was inevitably doomed when the Ukraine and Donetz Basin were invaded, now know better—to their own cost. Those who at present believe Germany is lost when the enemy stands on the Rhine are guilty of the same error. Our military reverses of the last months have been clearly traced to their sources and taken to heart. Germany must conquer because otherwise the Reich will go under. Germany can conquer. Germany will-conquer.” ROCKET WEAPON. LONDON, September 22. Reports about Germany’s V2 secret weapon continue to reach Britain from neutral sources. Goebbels has announced that the new terror is ready for use and German newspapers have published details of the subterranean factory where it is produced. The projectile, according to most

reports, is 50 feet long and five feet in diameter. It has a warhead containing about one ton of high explosive and carries nine tons of petrol for motive power. The petrol, with the addition of a chemical burned under pressure, generates a powerful gas which is discharged through a series of jets in the tail and forces the rocket through the air. It is fired with an extremely high trajectory which carries it into the stratosphere. Descending, it achieves a greater velocity than that of sound. JAPANESE “CAPTURES CHUNGKING, Sept. 22. The Chinese spokesman said that after capturing Wuchow, the Japanese are pushing on to Liuchow, a strategic junction on the Hunan-

Kwangei-Weichow railroads. The spokesman admitted that Wuchow has fallen without opposition, but declared that Chinese resistance would stiffen as the enemy drove deeper into Kwangsi province. Other Japanese forces captured Jungyun. sixty miles south-west of -Wuchow.