BANJALUKA BATTLE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 7, 10 January 1944, Page 5

BANJALUKA BATTLE

YUGOSLAV WITHDRAWAL Recd. 6 p.m. Rugby. Jan. 7. The headquarters of the Yugoslav People’s Army of Liberation states that, having successfully accomplished its task, its troops have withdrawn from Banjaluka. The Germans lost 680 killed, 700 wounded, 720 prisoners, and a great quantity of war material.—B.O.W. ground” as soon as necessary, states the New York Times’ Stockholm correspondent. A vast number of the Hitler Youth Party as well as potential regions critics of whatever conditions defeat would impose on Germany would be sufficient to re-establish a new organisation which, working from below, would become a factor for unrest and trouble in post-war Germany. Many recent statements by prominent Nazis make it plain that the idea of disaster has occurred to them as something more than a remote possibility. It is clear, however, that so long as the Nazis remain in power and until the last shots are fired, the party will not acknowledge defeat, any more than will the military hierarchy. Both factions are working hand in glove with Himmler, and the Wilhelmstrasse blandly splits under the weight of Soviet onlsaughts. With the nerv* centre, Berlin, systematically hammered by air blows, the Nazis' State is already cut up into sections, working independently and with administrative offices scattered in dozens of different directions. This disruption naturally gives the Dictator plenty of time for loafing and making his office more or less superfluous, a fact which Hitler probably realises. In any case, his public appearances are steadily becoming rarer and evidently the only use the party has for him is as a figurehead.