DEATH STRUGGLE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 99, 15 August 1944, Page 4

DEATH STRUGGLE

WHAT further diabolical means of destruction the Nazis have in mind to employ before the final coup-de-etat is administered by the converging Allied armies, can be left best to the imagination. We may rest assured however, that just as a desperate criminal, when cornered seeks to employ the most devilish of his devices in order to stave off his inevitable destruction so will the minions of Hitler stop at nothing before they are finally destroyed or forced to capitulate. Rumours of the most destructive of secret weapons yet evolved have been actively employed in the Nazi propaganda machine which has been used unremittingly to bolster up the flagging morale of the German armies in France and in East Prussia. Though they have on the main been treated with the contempt they deserve in Allied quarters, there can be no doubt whatsoever but that the Nazi scientfic minds have hatched up and are at this moment working on a machine of ghastliness, which will outstrip even the flying bomb in its range of indiscriminate destruction. We can readily assume that the blackening outlook of the Nazi future has lent spurs to the speeding up of the anything which might be calculated to relieve the growing pressure upon the Third Reich. Nothing will be spared to bring the new weapon, whatever it is into active operation as quickly as humanly possible to do so. The commanders of both the invading armies know this only too well, and the whole course of the war has now taken on a new shape—a race of the invaders to Berlin before the latest invention of Hitler's devihdiness can be perfected and employed against the armies of liberation, .or indeed against the homes of England itself.