SLOWER PACE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 24011, 8 July 1941, Page 7

SLOWER PACE

THE GERMAN ADVANCE

HEAVY PRICE PAID

BERLIN BLAMES WEATHER

LONDON. July 0

After a fortnight's tfirrific fighting by enormous German forces, equipped with thousands of tanks, supplemented by thousands of aeroplanes and the whole of the vast military machine, presumably under the high direction of Hitler himself, the Berlin radio has again stressed the difficulties of the campaign, and has even introduced references to "bad weatherl" This confirms the opinion of many experts that Hitler expected much quicker and more extensive results from the Germans' terrific onslaught than have been achieved. Russia has made the Germans pay heavily for their progress through occupied Poland, and, although the Soviet is no longer able to maintain its claim that the State frontier is intact, there are indications that the Germans anticipated a deeper penetration. Such penetration as there has been in certain sectors remains unconsolidated, the German official news agency admitting that big masses of Russian troops are still operating behind the German lines, and in some places are "rallying for a break through."

Enemy's Heavy Losses Russia claims that she is inflicting heavy losses on the enemy, and that the territory occupied is covered by thousands of German corpses, while the policy of "scorched earth" leaves the vast German army still dependent on its own supplies, necessitating provisioning from Germany. The German press, describing the push across the Pruth River, in the south, reported "heavy fighting, due to the extent and modernity of the Soviet equipment, the unshakable obstinacy of the Soviet defence and the difficulties of the terrain, as the river is bordered by marshes a mile wide." Vengeance lor London

From Moscow a radio spokesman declared: "Every dead German, every smashed tank, ©very destroyed aeroplane, is vengeance for London battered by a hundred raids, for our Allies and for those Germans who have fallen in the fight against Hitler."

The New York Times' Berlin correspondent says that officially it is not revealed whether inclement weather in White Russia and Ukrainian sectors retarded the German advance. The German communique declares merely that "operations are proceeding according to plan. East of Minsk, spearheads driving toward Moscow have arrived on the western bank of the Dneiper. In the Baltic States the pursuit of the 'defeated enemy' continues. Elsewhere the dispersed remnants of other armies have been annihilated and tremendous quantities of material captured."

"BLOODIEST CAMPAIGN"

SWEDISH PRESS REPORTS MANY GERMAN GRAVES SEEN (Reed. 6.40 p.m.) STOCKHOLM*. July G The Germans allowed Swedish correspondents to visit parts of the front, and they give details of captured territory littered with enormous quantities of destroyed material, including Russian tanks, claimed to be of 100 tons, and also destroyed crops. They saw many German graves, and one correspondent says: "The number of German graves justifies the assumption that the Russian campaign is incomparably the bloodiest of the whole war."

The Soviet Tass agency alleged that wholesale German atrocities have begun in frontier towns and districts. Gel-man officers, after the occupation of a Polish town, are said to have chased families into the streets and slashed defenceless women and children to pieces.

NAVAL SUCCESS GERMAN DESTROYERS SUNK ACTION IN GULF OF RIGA LONDON, July 7 A claim to have sunk two German destroyers in an action in the Baltic is made in a Russian communique. It states that a squadron of the Russian Navy engaged enemy forces in the Gulf of Riga, and at least two destroyers were sunk.

It is also claimed that an enemy submarine was destroyed in a Russian minefield.

ECONOMIC ENTENTE

BRITAIN AND AMERICA

DISCUSSION IN CANADA

VANCOUVER, July 3 An economic entente between the British Empire and the United States was forecast by Dr. F. C. James, principal of McGill Canada, addressing the biennial conference on Canadian- Ame r i can rclati on s. Dr. James went further than most speakers by suggesting a uniform monetary system and a uniform policy to direct the movements of population and labour conditions, domestic and international trade and capital investments all under tlio control of some central authoritv.

Other speakers were Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, British High Commissioner to Canada; Dr. C. H. Mcllwain, professor of the science of government at Harvard University; and James Truslow Adams, American Writer. None of the speakers suggested political union, but some dealt with a form of economic accord that would throw the world resources of raw materials and manufactured goods open to all nations that are seeking peace. "A new world order is arising from the horrors of the present world chaos," said Mr. Adams. "In this »new order I see foreshadowed world citizenship of the English-speaking peoples, founded not on formal laws but on the instinct that it is because we believe in the same sort of life as a good life, and that our spiritual happiness, our liberties and our safety depend on our voluntarily working together." BRITISH EXPERTS ARRIVE (Heed. 12.15 a.m.) MOSCOW, July 7 It is officially stated that two British Army officers, two naval officers and two A.R.P. experts have arrived in Moscow.