The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, The Echo and The Sun THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1912. SPRING OFFENSIVE WIDENS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 124, 28 May 1942, Page 6

The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, The Echo and The Sun THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1912. SPRING OFFENSIVE WIDENS

mm at inns in Libya has been hard to account for, although niii' 11;>i;; "i> lias been tli.it the Germans would be satisfied I mid the ; is:! i. hitiny gained in Rummers advance to the Gazala region until i Inn -pring nlTrn-'ivr in Russia developed. They have for many week. I,i i ii u in;: Bengasi as a port through which to reinforce Roinmi'l' arm\. li'it ihi-ic ha. been little indication of the strength of 'li'' rei.ii.•••< i-ine:!!.. • \ lii• !i have -iir< ceded in evading the British naval • 1 ■ 1: 1 ' •n \ i i In- i,i in, ii,. iiave launched an attack, apparently on 1 '"i ■ 1 1 1 able ia V w ili fori e which are said to be as strong as those v e; I i the uii, "i e 1111 i 1.1 • .u: i. General A uch in leek's army also has 'i *' ie • 111 * ie, l |. and it will meet this new attack with the confidence " ""• '"'a: i■ \i .ei I<■ ni-i• nid. we may hope, with the weaknesses i eve.i e.i ,n i .■(' w a;i■ t i amp ogn repaired. liu (.ei ii..in anaek no dmilit has been launched as part of a plan 11 ' ' 1 '■ 11 e11 to i■.ll >• i-c ilie urea.e.-i possible strain on British forces everyvill ii . i | I,in wlin I. ia a.i probability includes operations yet. to be ""•ea'id. : I, e oiTeii ive m Russia was of course a certainty; another 1,111 I' 1 1,1 aiash the British lories defending the Suez position was a.iiio i ei.iia!,. ii ;t mi tlmiigli there was doubt about its timing. What e.-.e 11 i i lie '■ • r 111 all .atlem p! ' !• air 1 > high in the scale of probability i-• in all a i 1-. in I ii key, w .Mi Ihe objects of threatening the Caucasus and of di übliiig the threat to Suez. Whether that will be at! e: ii |aei | dijiend.-.. perhaps, like so much else, on the outcome of 'he urea! battle ui the reuion of Kharkov. If they should go well for the iierri.ui>. we ma\ soon witness a determined onslaught on the (aiii a-us. tor which onslaught the capture of the Kerch peninsula has partlv prepared ilie way. Certain it is that Germany's greatest effort to win tla 1 war has begun, an effort which will be pressed with increasing "den at v in the next lew months. Hitler will not count the cost, because I a 1111 re will mean his eventual final defeat.