FUEL SUPPLY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1941, Page 5

FUEL SUPPLY

INDICATION OF NAZI DIFFICULTIES ON PARTS OF EASTERN FRONT. POSITION MAY BECOME PRECARIOUS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, July 3. Further evidence that the Germans have by no means gained universal, air superiority over the battlefields is given in a German Information Bureau dispatch describing the fighting in the region of Luck and Dubno. “While Soviet armoured units, including very heavy tanks, rolled forward from all • directions,” it says, “Soviet planes attacked the German forces unceasingly.” The Stockholm correspondent of “The Times” attaches much significance to the above-mentioned dispatch. He says that Soviet reports show that the Germans are experiencing difficulties in bringing up supplies of liquid fuel for their armoured units in the Dvinsk and Minsk regions. The ar-'

moured forces are thereby being delayed. This appears likely soon to become one of the most precarious factors in the German position. The Red Army’s stubborn and so far effective resistancs, the correspondent says, has thrown the whole of the German calculations out of gear. The expenditure of fuel in this continual manoeuvring fighting is so enormous that there are some indications that it has already become, or is rapidly becoming, not merely a question of bringing up fuel, but of finding fuel. The total weight of the German pressure does not appear to be increasing. The Germans have made relatively little territorial progress this week apart from the Baltic area.