TWO-EDGED DRIVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1941, Page 5

TWO-EDGED DRIVE

SOME PROGRESS MADE BV GERMANS REPORTED DISSENSIONS. NAZI LEADERS AT ODDS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.0 a.m.) LONDON. October 6. As the first confirmation of Hitler's threatened Russian offensive, authoritative quarters in London admit that a big two-edged drive is being made toward Moscow' and that “the Germans undoubtedly are making some progress.” The Moscow radio says a message from Stockholm reported that a number of German generals have demanded that Hitler should forbid Himmler from interfering in army matters. Besides this disagreement, there are fresh disagreements between German generals themselves. The German High Command’s original plan did not provide for a winter campaign. During the latest conference at Hitler’s headquarters, when preparations were considered for a winter campaign, General List and another general pointed out that the German armies’ longer communications in the East, together with guerilla warfare, would make it risky to launch any further offensives or operations by individual formations isolated from the main body of the army. General Guderian supported them and they foretold the failure of their General Staff’s new plan unless the army consolidated its position in the occupied area. Marshal Goering was not present, the official reason being ill health.