EFFECT OF WINTER

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 291, 13 November 1941, Page 8

EFFECT OF WINTER

NO LARGE-SCALE OPERATIONS

CAM PA lON IMPRACTICABLE

(United Press Association —Copyright) (2.30 p.in.t LONDON, Nov. 12. Winter is still exercising a considerable influence on the K.ussian fronts. The German military spokesman to-night admitted largescale operations on the Moscow trout at present are impossible. He added that the Crimea and the area around Leningrad were the only sectors where heavy lighting 'uas being, reported. The Times German 1 rentier coriee pendent says the Wilhelmstrasses suitemcnt tliat most unfavourable weather is turning the whole Eastern trout into mud, especially in the central sector, amount to a tacit admission after all that a serious . winter campaign is impracticable. All the signs suggesting the last great Geiman anti-Russian offensive proclaimed by Hitler on November 4 are really over without attaining the chief objectives. The German Hign Command s elite concern now is the maintenance and appearance of a frontline strength -while the whole of Germany’s armies in Russia are reorganised and redistributed. The Times correspondent declares that winter and a determination to redeem the pledges about providing comforts, particularly sheltered quarters, appear at present the chief drivill<r force behind the German High Command. According to trustworthy .Berlin information some units are already being sent home.