GENERALS CALLED TO CONFERENCE

Waikato Times, Volume 130, Issue 21737, 25 May 1942, Page 3

GENERALS CALLED TO CONFERENCE

PLANS UPSET BY RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE DESTRUCTION OF MUCH ENEMY FIGHTING POWER (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received May 25, 11.30 a.m.) a LONDON, May 24 Hitler has left Berlin suddenly for the Eastern front, where, according to Stockholm reports, all generals commanding operations against Russia have Been called to a special conlerence to revise the German plan of campaign. I his move is taken as the surest indication that Marshal Timoshenko's surprise offensive lias 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 have 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 the war Hitler has let a year pass without either a military or diplomatic victory. Hitler has tried his generals and his intuition. Now he has put intuition back in the cupboard and brought out his generals again. “ Much of the fighting power of the German army was destroyed last winter and not all Hitler's intuition nor all his generals can make that shattered, 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 simultaneously are better than one and that Hitler is now so securely in the grip of Stalin that his hark is open, or soon will he open, to a fatal stab. Jo deliver it needs strength, hut more than strength. It needs courage and that is our quality.”