AXIS STRENGTH

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20901, 29 September 1942, Page 5

AXIS STRENGTH

RiBBENTROPS BOASTS WILL CONQUER ALUES THREAT TO BRITAIN (By Telegraph—Press Assn— Copyright.) (3.15 p.m.) LONDON. Sept. 27. “We are confident of winning the battle for Stalingrad,” said Herr von Ribbentrop in a speech on the second anniversary of the three-Power pact. “When we take Stalingrad our most dangerous antagonist will suffer a blow from which he never recover. We are ready for more Dieppes. A second front attempt will no longer be able to check Russia's increasing paralysis.” Herr von Ribbentrop predicted greater efforts to prevent British and American supplies from reaching Russia.

“Two-thirds of Russia’s supplies of grain and wheat, the whole of its sugar, and GO per cent of its coal have been seized.” he said “Russia has lost 90,000.000 inhabitants through our territorial gains. Her losses in dead, wounded, and prisoners total about 14,000.000. Russia is nearing exhaustion in man-power, food, and raw materials.

“Bv the conquest of the Ukraine and the Kuban, the food situation for the whole of Europe is secured for the future. All Europe is one armament factory working for us. Against 190,000,000 people in England and America, from which they draw skilled workers—plus the remainder of the decimated Russian workers—the Axis have 450.000,000 at their disposal. “The future will show whether Churchill’s bomb warfare against the civilian population was a good or bad idea. Every single bomb, every home destroyed, every dead person, makes the Germans more determined to make th e British pay. The time will come when we will deal finally with this ‘British aircraft carrier off Europe.’ “The tripartite pact was concluded, firstly, as a warning to .the United States. As Roosevelt and his Jewish war-mongering clique continues to drive Americans against their will to war it is necessary that they should know with whom they have to deal. The Axis, on the contrary, it hardened and then made them secure everywhere. We shall continue striking aganist Russia until all danger threatening Europe from bolshevism is abolished. In the Mediterranean and North Africa we shall give the British no rest. In western Europe, large armies stand ready to nip in the bud all landing attempts. Time is now definitely working for the tripartite Powers.”