Not Enough Pilots, Guns or Tanks

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 206, 31 August 1944, Page 5

Not Enough Pilots, Guns or Tanks

LAST DESPERATE PLIGHT REVEALED TO GERMANS Reodvsd Wednesday, 8 pan. LONDON, Aug. 30. In a frank account of Germany’s plight to-day the German News Agency’s war reporter (Achim Fernau) says: “It, is fantastic for anyone to imagine that a German victory is certain. The world now has a different aspect for Germany. “The Russians are coming always nearer. They are before Warsaw, before Cracow and before East Prussia. German divisions are being thrown against them, hut still we have to retreat. Entire regiments are perishing and endless quantities of materials disappearing in the mud. There are not enough pilots, not enough guns, not enough tanks. Something has to be done to stop them. “In Italy the British are marching and bringing up incredible numbers. Since the invasion on June 6 the British and Americans have sunk their teeth firmly into Prance and our counterattacks fail. British bombers are soaring over Germany to smash our cities. “All this has to be said with such cold words because it is the truth.’’ The Berlin radio’s spokesman (General Dietmar) said: “On the threshold of the sixth year of war the greater part of Trance is slipping from our hands. In Southern Prance every step northward by our forces disengaging up the Rhone Valley is ground gained and helps our prospects of establishing a new Arm front after the arrival of considerable new forces. “We are confronted with the necessity of fighting on, which brooks no alternative. This necessity is self-preservation or annihilation Thus, the tooth-and-claw struggle is the law of highest expediency because only thus can we compel the enemy to consider whether his sacrifices and losses are worth the candle militarily and politically..”