THE OFFENSIVE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4562, 20 April 1942, Page 7

THE OFFENSIVE

NAZI STRIKING POWER “ There is no doubt that in the spring the . Germans will still have great mechanical striking power. The war is not interfering with the output of their arms factories; and probably this output is sufficient to make good all the great material losses they are suffering and will suffer in their Russian retreat.

“ But new offensives cannot be mounted in terms of machines alone; nor even in terms merely of numbers of new men. If our. Russian Allies can maintain their magnificent energy of attack, from Leningrad to the Crimea, the strained capacities and morale of Hitler’s armies may be reduced to a level which will put a decisive Eastern victory for ever beyond their scope.

“ Nevertheless, we have to reckon with the possibility that the German armies will be able to take the initiative once more; and we must remember that the Russians have lost a considerable part of their productive resources.

“ Neither their brilliant successes since the re-capture of Rostov, nor the spread of war to the Far East, must allow us to forget that Russia still wants, and will continue to want, all the equipment that we and the United States are able to send her.”— Manchester Guardian.