UNREST IN REICH

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 198, 23 July 1941, Page 7

UNREST IN REICH

SHOCKED BY CASUALTIES,

(Rec. 1.45 p.m.) LONDON, July 22. The German propaganda machine, while still promising victories, is now emphasising tho difficulties of the eastern offensive and excusing the failure to achieve a break-through. The Berlin radio declared conditions on the Russian front were entirely different from those on the Western Front and it would take much longer to achieve a decisive result than after the breaching of the Weygand Line. “The enemy is numerically superior not only in man-power but also in equipment.” A German officer, Colonel Bade, tit a broadcast, said: “1 cannot tell you all the difficulties confronting the German army because the enemy is listening in. Our heavy vehicles arc frequently hopelessly stuck in the loose ’ earth and immobilised in impenetrable dust. Because of the rapid advance of our motorised forces and the depth of our front, our rear communications particularly are threatened. Dispersed Soviet forces often sabotage our communications.”

Evidence of the growing dissatisfaction in Germany is reaching London from many sources.

The Daily Telegraph’s Stockholm correspondent says that from every corner of the enslaved Continent comes the first muttering of the thunderstorm which it is believed here will sweep away Nazidom before the world is much older.

From Germany there is no more talk of peace before Christmas with flagwaving crowds marching down the Uliter Den Linden. Instead, reports describe villages shocked by the mounting casualties, further decreases in rations which are already cut to the minimum, the arrival of Gestapo reinforcements, and increasing arrests on the ground of political indiscretion.