USE BY ARMY

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25048, 11 November 1944, Page 7

USE BY ARMY

CLAIMS IN , BERLIN PASSING TO OFFENSIVE ATTACKS AGAINST CITIES (Reed. 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 10 The German press and radio are still going full blast boasting about V2, says the Stockholm correspondent of the Daily Express. The correspondent quotes a Berlin military spokesman as saying that the new weapon would be put in sufficient numbers at the disposal of the Wehrmacht to enable it to pass from the defensive to the offensive. This statement is interpreted in Sweden as indicating that the Germans intend to use the new bomb on an increasing scale, not only against London, but also against other European cities, such as Paris and Brussels. The spokesman added that -V2 was much more accurate than VI, and doubtless would be able to cover much greater distances than at present. Guesses as to the starting point were useless, as the firing bases were camouflaged with great skill. JET PLANES ACTIVE GERMAN RECONNAISSANCE MESSERSCHMITT "SWALLOWS" (Reed. 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 10 The enemy's jet planes are enabling him to build up a picture of what is going on behind the Allied lines, states the Daily Mail's aviation correspondent. Photographic reconnaissance is by far the most important job which the Messersehmitt "Swallows" are doing as they streak high over the Allied lines in Holland at up to 600 miles an hour. Their nuisance raids, in which they dive silently to aim a 5001b bomb at airfields and other targets, are a trifling matter by comparison. It is well to face the fact, says the correspondent, that if and when the Germans are able to put large numbers of "Swallows" into the fighting on the Western Front the Allies may not be able to oppose them with anything like the same number of jet propelled planes. HITLER'S SILENCE MYSTERY GROWS DEEPER (Reed. 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 10 The mystery of the silence of Hitler thickened last night with a strange German broadcast building up the Fuehrer as a martyr, almost as a deity, says the Daily Express. Fanfares and military marches opened the programme. They were followed by solemn and sentimental music and poetry. Then Goebbels' picked propagandists piled up' the emotionalism. The keynote was: "Love your Fatherland with a passionate fanaticism." Brief German press and radio comment was broadcast yesterday on the anniversary of the Munich Putsch. It avoided any mention of Hitler and concentrated instead on the Bolshevik danger and the Allies' failure to clinch the "campaign in the West. The home service broadcast warned the German people to concentrate on the present and not on the past.

FIGHTING ON MILOS GERMANS CLAIM SUCCESS LONDON, Nov. 9 According to the German news agency, the German garrison on the Greek island of Milos, after a fortnight's hard fighting, threw out the British who attempted to capture the island. The news agency said that the British werft covered by several aircraft-carriers, cruisers and destroyers, which stood off the island throughout the operations. Planes from the carriers constantly bombed the defenders of the island, who were also subjected to fire from naval guns. SUPREME COURAGE GURKHA'S VICTORIA CROSS LONDON, Nov. 9 Outstanding courage and superb gallantry, in the face of odds which meant almost certain death epitomise the deed by which a Gurkha rifleman, Tulbahadur Pun, of the Indian Army, won the Victoria Cross. During an attack on a railway bridge at Mogaung, Burma, on June 23, he seized a Bren gun and, firing from the hip, made a solitary charge on a heavily hunkered position in the face of a most, shattering concentration of automatic fire directed straight at him. With the dawn coming up behind him. he presented a perfect target. He liad to move 30 yards over open ground ami ankle-deep in mud, through shell holes and over fallen trees. In spite of these overwhelming odds, he reached his objective, closed with the occupants, killed three and put five more to flight and captured two light machine-guns and much ammunition. He then gave accurate supporting fire from the bunker to the remainder of his platoon which enabled them to reach their objective. NAZI WAR CRIMINALS (Rerd. 11.50 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 10 Mr de Valera stated in the Dail that he had replied to Allied representations about the possibility of war criminals seeking refuge in Kiro. but he wa* not at present in a position to give further ! information.