END OF THE WAR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25673, 23 October 1944, Page 6

END OF THE WAR

ALLIED LEADERS CAUTIOUS NO SIGN OF ENEMY CRACKING LONDON, Oct. 20. Nearly a fortnight’s battling for this “dead” city has made. Allied leaders more cautions in their estimates about the end of the war than they-were when the Americans first invaded the Reich, says the Daily Mail’s Aachen correspondent. There are no signs here of the hoped-for crack in the German nation.

All observations in this corner of Germany lead to the conclusion that anti-Nazi Germans do not exist. Every German I have met is a good patriot,: who believes implicitly in the Father-, land. -One piece of Allied propaganda that got fight under their skin is the suggested • dismemberment of a defeated Germany; There'is no evidence there that the Nazis are short of either good-class troops or armour. Between the Americans and the Rhine there may be anything from 200,000 to 400,000 German soldiers, including at least one crack panzer, division, and the heaviest concentration of artillery the Germans have ever collected against us. The open country ahead isV'utterly .'''rainsoaked and treacherous^'This'hot perturb the Americans, but here, wo have stopped making guesses about when the war will end. .