Late War News VILNA NEXT ON VICTORY LIST

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 239, 6 July 1944, Page 6

Late War News VILNA NEXT ON VICTORY LIST

Air Raid Indication TENSE WATCH FROM BERLIN (By Telegraph.—l'ress Assn.—Copyright.) (Received July G, 1.25 a.m.) LONDON, July 5. ■ In a double drive against Vilitii, one Russian formation is thrusting from Vileika and another from Polotsk.” says Moscow radio. ’'Our air attack on Viliui last night was a good indication the next Russian objective. It. was no routine attack against enemy supply lines, as Vilna is not a German supply route to the White Russian front* “Such massed raids precede Russian land attacks by a few flays.” The Scandinavian Telegram Bureau says Berliners arc tensely fixing their eyes on the landslide rolling forward from Russia. .Military circles stress that the centre of gravity of the war is now in (he east.” Speech By Hitler. “We will nor surrender, however great the difficulties,” Hiller told a conference of armament apd war production leaders called by the Minister of Munitions, von Speer, reports the German news agency. “This war must not be judged by day-to-day developments,’’ said the Fuehrer, “Within the scope of a war of such immense world and historic dimensions a temporary success or reverse cau have no decisive significance. In this the greatest struggle for the fate of the'Derman nation everyone's task is to fight and work for victory without respite. I realize that immensely strong nerves and exceptional willpower is necessary to survive such times as these, but I also know that the guiding star of all our actions is one unchangeable principle—we will not surrender, however great may be the difficulties that face us. Can anybody really believe that leadership like the German which had the good fortune of scoring success after success through four long years could now fail? The answer is emphatically ‘No.’ We shall survive these limes, and in the end win this war. “Not only soldiers but also technicians and technical inventions have been its feature from the outbreak. Our enemies during the war have succeeded in catching up with (he Germans in many fields, and even overtaking Germany in others for the time being at least. However. the German inventive genius is about to restore the technical equilibrium. Conditions arc being created in this way which will allow us to turn (be wheel of war full circle.”

Speer announced a further increase in armament production, which lie said had been possible in spite of the enemy air attacks owing to (he exemplary work of (lie German workers and. intensified rationalization and simplification of production.