U-BOAT WARFARE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 231, 30 September 1943, Page 2

U-BOAT WARFARE

ATTEMPT AT DISSENSION New York. Sept. 26. The belief that the Nazis will reopen the U-boat warfare in a final attempt to forestall the opening of the second front is expressed by diplomatic quarters which maintain close contact with Germany, says the Istanbul correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune. They say t-.aL Germany has abandoned hope that submarines can starve Britain into submission, but hopes that heavy attacks by technically improved U-boats may make the Allied shipping position as serious as last spring, in which event the more cautious Allied leaders might postpone opening the second front, thus increasing friction between the democracies and Russia. The Wehrmacht would withdraw in Russia to a line approximately following the 1941 frontiers. The Nazis would attempt to utilise Allied dissension to persuade the Russians that since all Soviet territory has been liberated and the second front not. opened, the Russians would do well Io sign an armistice or arrive at a tacit, understanding under which offensive on the Eastern Front, would cease. There is no hint so far from Russian quarters of any such arrangement being contemplated.