NAZIS DISCONCERTED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 July 1941, Page 6

NAZIS DISCONCERTED

MUCH TALK OF TERRIBLE DIFFICULTIES COLONEL GIVES DETAILS IN BROADCAST. HEAVY VEHICLES FREQUENTLY STUCK. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON. July 22. The German propaganda ma- ' chine, while still promising victories, is now emphasising the difficulties of the Eastern offensive and excusing the failure to achieve a break through. The Berlin radio declared that conditions on the Russian front were entirely different from those on the Western front and that it will take much longer to achieve a decisive result than after the breaching of the Weygand Line. The enemy has a numerical superiority, not only in manpower, but also in equipment. A German officer, Colonel Bade, broadcasting,- said: “I cannot tell you of all the difficulties confronting the German Army, because the enemy is listening in. Our heavy' vehicles frequently are hopelessly stuck in loose earth and immobilised in impenetrable dust. Because of the rapid advance of our motorised forces and the depth of our front, our rear communications are particularly threatened. Dispersed Soviet forces often sabotage our communications.” Evidence of growing dissatisfaction in Germany is reaching London from many sources. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Stockholm correspondent says: “From every corner of the enslaved Continent ccme the first mutterings of a thunderstorm which, it is believed here, will sweep away Nazidom before the world is much older. From Germany there is no more talk of peace before Christmas, with flagwaving crowds marching down the Unter Den Linden. Instead reports describe villages shocked by mounting casualties, further decreases in rations which have already been cut to a minimum, and the arrival of Gestapo reinforcements and increasing arrests on the grounds of political indiscretion.