GERMAN PLANS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1942, Page 4

GERMAN PLANS

ATTEMPT TO INVADE BRITAIN • THIS YEAR IF RUSSIA IS SMASHED BY SUMMER. ACCORDING TO BERLIN CORRESPONDENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This* Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, May 17. “The best-informed military circles in Berlin predict an attempt to invade Britain this autumn, if Russia is smashed by midsummer,” says Mr Joseph Grigg, the United Press Berlin correspondent, who has reached Lisbon after two years in Germany. Fie adds that everyone in Germany believes that the crisis of the wai’ will occur this summer. Because of her immense reserves and vast booty, Germany is not short of guns and ammunition. The chief shortages affecting war power are some foodstuffs, fats and some metals needed to harden steel for aero engines. Plane production is a constant source of worry to the High Command. The output is estimated at between 1,100 and 2,500 a month. The total number of planes available is about 35,000, many of which are no match for the latest Allied planes. ’Hitler evidently hoped to win with 1939 plane types and the necessity for new models has slowed output. A full-out effort against Russia is likely within a month, coupled with a full-out U-boat campaign to cut off Russia and Britain from American arms. U-boats are being built at the rate of about eighteen monthly. Probably one in three is being sunk.