NEW GERMAN ARMY

Grey River Argus, 3 June 1943, Page 5

NEW GERMAN ARMY

THREE MILLION MEN Time Wanted to Complete Training LAust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, June 1. The '‘Times’s’ Stockholm correspondent sayjs: “The theme of numerous articles in the German newspapers- of neutral Berlin correspondents is that a quiet military period lies ahead. Several German newspapers are drawing attention to the anniversary of the Battle of Jutland, which, ,of course, they claim to have been a German victory. The papers sa’y that no such victory, or quick decision, can be expected in this war, but only a slow fight to exhaustion by the U-boats. ■. “The Berlin correspondents of Swedish newspapers emphasise this view. One correspondent says: “Remarkable as it sounds, the conviction which is now dominant in Berlin is that what the Fortress of Europe re-

quires is a whole quiet year for the effecting of a colossal rearmament, and for the training of the new German Army, which has been recruited during the past few months.” Another writer reports: The German leaders are now directing their efforts to the procuring of “a period of military quiet for some time ahead.” The transfer of German industry has already been far advanced. “Writers suggest that a pause by the land operations is now inevitable. The past three years or Blitz War has not failed to leave the traces in the German Army. The winter campaign in Russia especially made great gaps in men and material. Then came the Tunisian campaign, with heavy losses, particularly of men.” “The Stockholm “Tidningen’s” Berlin correspondent says: “Germany needs this quiet year to train her new Army, and equip it with the latest weapons. Informed circles in Berlin claim that Germany has succeeded in accumulating a' new Three-mil-lion-men Army, by combing the factories, the workshops and the offices, under Hitler’s order to bring the' German Army to its full military level again as speedily as possible.” The “Times” correspondent adds: “The Germans also claim to have an Auxiliary Army, composed of the anti-Soviet Russians, under Russian General Vlassov, this force totalling 560.000 men. to which there are attached 62,000 men, as volunteers, who have been recruited in Galicia. The Germans have lately been advertising the existence of this mysterious anti-Stalin force, but there has been no corroboration as to its reality.”

Being Evaquated

GERMAN AIR RAID AREAS. (Rec. 9.0.) LONDON, June 2. The “Daily Express” Berne correspondent reports: The Berlin paper “Das Reich’ 'to-day gave full details of a plan for completely evacuating the air raid regions of Germany. Under the plan, not only those people whose homes have been destroyed will be shifted, but practically the entire civilian population, except for armament workers and civilians in Westphalia, will gradually be moved to Baravia. Berliners will be sent to the Pomerania, East Russia, and Brandenburg provinces. News also has been received that preparations have already nearly been completed for the evacuating of all of the school children from Duisburg. Eighteen thousand have left Hamburg. ; '