RUSSIAN COMMENT
BEGINNING OF OFFENSIVE (Official Wireless? (Received May 22, 1 p.m.) RUGBY, May 21 “The current Allied offensive in Italy, where the fighting is becoming increasingly fierce, is.viewed not as an isolated operation but as the beginning of a general offensive in this theatre of war,” says Pravda in the first Soviet comment on the Italian offensive. “The break through at the Hitler Line has proved to the Germans that the Allies are capable of crashing any German defences and possess sufficient iorces for this purpose.
“Increased Allied pressure will demand the transfer of enemy forces from the west, but this does not signify a weakening in the German defence there, particularly as the Germans understand that the Italian front is linked up with the forthcoming invasion. Simultaneously the pressure on the Eastern front is growing. Nervousness and confusion among the Germans show how ripe and favourable the situation is for Allied blows from the .west.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 194, Issue 22354, 22 May 1944, Page 3
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