PLANES FOR RUSSIA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 188, 12 August 1941, Page 5

PLANES FOR RUSSIA

HUNDREDS FROM U.S.A. NOTHING LEFT TO CHANCE CHANGED OUTLOOK OF WAR London, Aug. 10. According Io authoritative rcpoits from Washington, hundreds of American lighter planes built for Britain are now on their way to Russia. Arrangements also being mauc to provide Russia with the latest type of American medium bombers. The British Government has consented to their transfer, because Britain has sufficient planes in reserve. Mr. John Gordon, writing in the Sundav Express, says: “I back Russia to win. The German dream of a quick victory is fading. The Battle of Britain was a shock. The Battle of Russia is a great shock, but the nightly crashing of bombs on the Germans' towns is probably the greatest shock of all to Hitler.’’ Mr. J. L. Garvin, in the Observe;, says Russia’s resistance has turnon the tide against Hitlerism The Russians know their heaviest tests arstill to come, but they are more confident than ever that they shall win. “Next month, as we enter the third year of the war. the supreme effort, o. the British Commonwealth and the United States will be to organise the bulk of mankind to ensure the world's deliverance to the great peace. Hiticr|isni will have died hard, but its fate | is forewritten.”

Captain Liddell Hart, in a speech, said that prior to the Russian entry into the war there was no reasonable ground for the talk of victory in which political leaders indulged. Hitler has now altered the strategic plans of the war as a result of which, for the first time since the outbreak, there is a possibility of our victory in a substantial sense as distinct from the mere frustration of Germany. Nazi Panic Tactics. Examining Nazi military methods, the Moscow paper Pravda says they strive to create a semblance of encirclement with a view to unde*mining the moraie of the Russians and creating panic and disorganisation. When this fails in one sector they immediately Transfer their blows to neighbouring sectors, attaining the hanks and trying to find weak spots for a break-through. Such tactics aie meant for a weak enemy and could succeed only in countries wnere the Germans had to deal with an inadequately armed enemy whose troops soon lost their bearings on the appearance of large numbers of tanks, mine-' tnrowers, and motor-cyclists. When tne Nazi troops, in turn, are uireatened with encirclement it is they who became disconcerted. I The force commanded by MajorGeneral Galitsky, one of thv first to receive a blow from the Nazi tank columns, not only repelleu tne attack but destroyed 265 tanks by artillery fire. The men marched for days and I nights across forests and swanipr, destroying German supply columns and creating panic by attacking the enemy unit in the rear. General Galitsky managed to bring two-thirds of his effectives out of encirclement and inflicted losses much higher than their own.—U.P.A.