REST CURE FOR HITLER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 298, 18 December 1941, Page 5

REST CURE FOR HITLER

i ADVICE OF HIS DOCTORS REPORTED FALLING OF GERMAN MORALE (By Telegiaph—Pre*-* Ah-aociation —Copyright ) London, Dec. 16 According to German quarters in Ankara (Turkey). Herr Hitler is rest- • ing at Berchtesgaden. Doctors have ' strongly advised nim to take a rest cure. NEW YORK, Di 16. Germany ap--1 pears to be facing an internal crisis I of extreme gravity, declares the New j York Times' correspondent in StockI holm. j Reports reaching Sw eden refer to a • conference between Hitler and gaulet- . iers at which it was revealed that the i morale of the masses was extremely ' unsatisfactoi*. Hitler is reported to • have been informed that It would be ■ difficult to avoid a dangerous wave of ■ defeatism as a result of the failure to i capture Moscow. Moscow reports that in the live months of lighting on the Eastern j Front, the Germans have lost a whole j generation of about 6.000,000 killed, wounded, or taken prisoner and also I 19,000 guns. 15,000 tanks, and 13.000 1 planes, says the Soviet Information i Bureau in a statement refuting Hitj let's figure* Russian losses in missi ing amounted to 520,000, including i war prisoners. j The statement adds that German i 10.-ses are so immense that Hitler dare not inform the German people of them. | An Istanbul (Turkey) message j states that about flood frost-bitten Germans from Russia are in Bulgaria I and Greece. It is believed that they I will not be allowed to return to the Reitih because of the effect the) 1 might have on German morale.