Naval Offensive Germany’s Best Weapon

Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 85, 10 April 1943, Page 5

Naval Offensive Germany’s Best Weapon

TO COMBAT THREATS OF INVASION Received, Saturday, 1 a.m. LONDON, April 9. Admiral Doemtz fias decided to concentrate all possible efforts against Britain and above all against fier oil-carriers, says tfie Daily Mail’s Madrid correspondent. He intends to do tfiis not only with submarines but with an Increased number of swift torpedo launches. Tbe German naval spokesman said: “A naval offensive by both undersea and surface craft is Germany’s best weapon against tbe two pressing dangers, tbe first of which is tbe growing rhytbm and strength of tbe Allied air raids, and tbe second of which is the potential but close-at-hand Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Europe. There is no doubt that the submarine is the only offensive weapon that Germany can now use against the Allies and the greatest possible number of submarines are being concentrated on all the sea lanes to Britain. The Stockholm correspondent of the New York Times says a new German ordinance requiring all German males to learn the use of the rifle and form target clubs Is interpreted as an indication that the Nazis are reckoning on the possibility of an invasion of their home territory and intend to organise partisan units modelled on the Russian guerrillas. The ordinance apparently applies to men not already designated for the newly-created Home Guards.