COLD CONSOLATION

Grey River Argus, 16 March 1942, Page 4

COLD CONSOLATION

Hitler’s Speech HARD YEAR’S FIGHTING. (Rec. 1.18). LONDON, March 15 In speeching at the annual ceremony in memory of the Germans killed in the last war, Hitler said: “Behind us there lies a year not only of the hardest battles in the world’s history, but of the severest trials for our people. We have'had to face not only apparently unlimited masses of the enemy, but a winter such as has not been known for forty years. What is to come can only be easier than what Is behind us.” HITLER’S HOPE ISTANBUL, March 13. A retired Turkish general, Emir Erkilet, in a newspaper article describes an interview with Hitler, who declared his hope that the spring offensive would smash through Rostov. Hitler declared: “We will advance through Rostov, cutting the Russian lines of communication with the Caucasus and the Volga as a result of which the Russian armies will be deprived of oil.”