AXIS AIMS FAIL
FACTORS REVIEWED CONFIDENCE IN MOSCOW ALLIED VICTORY ASSURED (British Official Wireless.) (Noon.) RUGBY, Sept. 27. The Germans have at least 1,000,000 men fighting in and near Stalingrad, as well as several thousand tanks and aircraft, according to M. Alexandrov, the Soviet propaganda chief. With this concentration the Germans planned to establish a front from Stalingrad to the Caspian Sea along the Volga, after which they would launch a new offensive against Moscow and then against Britain. With the Black Sea ports of Tuapse, Sochi, and Poti still in Soviet hands, M. Alexandrov asserts that the Germans have failed to achieve their summer aims on the southern front. Enumerating the conditions for an ultimate victory over the German army, M. Alexandrov says: “The time is not far distant when our allies will bring into action their armies against the common enemy.” The growing activity of guerrillas also is cited as a factor which will bring victory to the Red Army;
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20900, 28 September 1942, Page 3
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