NEW NAZI VIEW

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24085, 2 October 1941, Page 9

NEW NAZI VIEW

NO WINTER CAMPAIGN STRATEGY IN RUSSIA OCCUPYING TERRITORY (Reed. 12.14 a.m.) ZURICH, Oct. 1 Colonel Scherff, a member of the German General Staff, in an article published in the German press, explains—contrary to all other writers —that the Russian winter will bring to a standstill the German operations on the eastern front. Colonel Scherff stresses the point that the High Command lifts already counted on this, and explains that the Gorman troops iii the last war stood through several Russian winters without much suffering. Also, the situation to-day is favourable because the Germans are not fighting a two-front war. "When the winter snowfall begins wo will have penetrated Russia to such an extent that she will be unable to organise a spring offensive even if she succeeds in mobilising and training several millions of men during the winter lull," says the colonel. "The German High Command will continue its offensive immediately according to plan, which aims to deprive the Red Array of all territory with modern traffic communication."

TALKS IN MOSCOW IRAN SUPPLY ROUTE ROLLING STOCK FROM BRITAIN (Reed. 7.15 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 1 A third conference between M. Stalin, Lord Beaverbrook and Mr. Harriman took place last night. The Foreign Commissar, M. Molotoff, and M. Litvinoff were present. The Daily Mail says a large number of locomotives and trucks which a few weeks ago were employed in Britain are now being sent to Iran in order to speed up supplies to Russia from the Persian Gulf. British technicians flew to Iran when it was realised that that country would be one of the chief supply routes, and rolling stock is now being sent out in accordance with their reports.

SUPPLIES FOR SOVIET

BRITAIN AND AMERICA TRANSPORT MAY SET LIMIT LONDON, Sept. 30 Dealing with assistance to the Soviet, Mr. Churchill, in his address to the House of Commons, said the interval since the message which he and Mr. Roosevelt had sent to M. Stalin had been used in ceaseless activity, and the whole ground had been surveyed. Many important supplies had already been despatched and a mission had gone to Moscow with a clear and full knowledge of what it was possible to give Russia month by month from now onward. With this knowledge, the Soviet authorities would be able to deoide how best to fill the gap between the heavy losses sustained, together with the diminished production and power, on the one hand, and the arrival of supplies on the other. Extensive and serious sacrifices would have to bo made to enable the Soviet to remain indefinitely in the field as a first-class warmaking Power, and enormous new installations and the conversion of existing plant would have to be made in the United States, with all the consequent disturbances. Mr. Churchill pointed out that the Soviet needed not only tanks, hut aircraft, aluminium, rubber, copper, oil and many other materials vital to modern war. Transport and reception there must bo organised and it might be transportation rather than the ability to give that would prove the. limiting factor.

"VICTORIOUS ENTRY" ANTONESCU DISAPPOINTED REVERSES AT ODESSA (Ttrofl 12.14 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 1 An observer on the Odessa front, who lias just returned to Moscow, estimates the German and Rumanian losses at Odessa at 160,000 men. He states that the Rumanian Prime Minister, General Antonescu, twice visited the front to make a victorious entry into Odessa. He first appeared on August 23, and after looking at the city through his glasses, ordered that it be taken ut all costs by August 2.5. The Rumanians failed to break through anywhere and retreated after they had suffered enormous losses. One entire Rumanian unit went over to the Russians. The Tass news agency says that the Odessa garrison recaptured 15 villages one day during the rout of the 2nd and 4th Rumanian Infantry Brigades. ' ARMY OF 1,000,000 INDIAN DEFENCE MEASURES LONDON, Oct. I India will soon possess .1,000,000 fighting men, stated the Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in India, General Sir Archibald Wavell, in Cairo. General Wavell said that as a result of Russia's entry into the war the military position had changed strategically, and in India air-raid precautions were being brought up to the same standard as in other countries.