PLANS UPSET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1942, Page 3

PLANS UPSET

HITLER ON HIS WAY TO RUSSIA CONFERENCE OF GENERALS CALLED. POSSIBILITIES OF ATTACK IN WEST. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, May 24. Hitler left Berlin suddenly for the Front, where, according to reports from Stockholm, all the generals commanding the operations against Russia have been called to a special conference to revise the German plan of campaign. This move is taken as the surest indication that Marshal Timoshenko’s surprise offensive completely upset the German plans for the summer operations, at least on the southern front, and is threatening vast stores of equipment and munitions which had been built up in preparation for the German attack. “The fates are running against Hitler,” says the editor of the “Sunday Express,” Mr John Gordon. “For the first time since the outbreak of war Hitler has let a year pass without either a military or diplomatic victory. . . Not all Hitler’s intuition nor all his generals can make that shattered and shaken army do this year what it could not do last year. “The mass of the people of this country see that this year a great chance has come to us. They believe that two nations attacking Germany simulteneously is better than one, and that Hitler is now so ‘ securely in the grip of Stalin that his back is open, or soon will be open, to a fatal stab. To deliver it needs strength, but more than strength: it needs courage, and that is our quality.”