NAZI AIR FORCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1941, Page 3

NAZI AIR FORCE

REPORTED REGROUPING

LOCATION OBSCURE.

BUT GENERALLY TOWARDS MEDITERRANEAN.

• LONDON, December 23. Reports reaching London indicate that the Germans are regrouping their main air forces. The "Daily Telegraph’s” aeronautical correspondent says the exact location of the new concentrations is so far obscure, but the general direction of the movement is apparently toward the Spanish frontier, southern Italy, Sicily and Greece.

The regrouping suggests: — First: The -Germans believe they can stabilise and hold the Eastern Front without a very strong air force. Secondly: An offensive may be contemplated* in Spain or the eastern Mediterrtnean. It is established that the Russian air force dominates the Eastern front, but it has so far not been proved that the Germans hgve moved a large number of units from the east westward. STIR IN BULGARIA EARLY MOBILISATION EXPECTED. (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, December 23. The Moscow radio broadcast an Istanbul report that warlike preparations are increasing in Bulgaria and that mobilisation is expected to be imminent. German control over Burgas and Varna is complete and large numbers of German seamen are arriving.