DEFEAT OF REICH

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21550, 1 November 1944, Page 3

DEFEAT OF REICH

DELAY POSSIBLE SUMMER NEXT YEAR JAPAN 18 MONTHS LATER (11 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 31. In moving the second reading of a bill in the House of Commons for the prolongation of Parliament for another year, the Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, said that on military grounds alone it would not be prudent to assume a shorter period than 18 months after the destruction of Hitler would be required for the final destruction of the JapaneJJTwill or capacity to fight. He was of the opinion that the coalition should not be broken before Nazism was broken. Any attempt to estimate the date when tlie war against Germany could be officially declared over could net be any more than a guess. He did not place any dependence on a political uprising in Germany. On military grounds it seemed difficult, to believe that the war against Germany could be ended before Christmas or even before Easter, although many high military authorities, with every means of forming accurate judgment, had expressed themselves more Hopefully. "i certainly could not predict, still less guarantee, the end of the German war before the end of spring or even before early summer," he added.