BEHIND SCHEDULE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1942, Page 3

BEHIND SCHEDULE

DESPERATE NAZI GAMBLE IN RUSSIA GROWING ECONOMIC STRAIN ON REICH. EVERYTHING STAKED ON QUICK SUCCESS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, September 16 “Germany’s internal economy and war effort are so geared to an all-out, short-term policy. that she is staking everything on the destruction of the Soviet armies before the winter. This is the information reaching economic experts from inside the Reich,” says the London correspondent of the New York “Herald-Tribune.” “If this objective is not reached serious repercussions on the German war industries and civilian life are predicted. Already Field-Marshall von Bock is nearly 30 days behind schedule and each day that Stalingrad delays him lessens Hitler's chances of winning the desperate gamble.

“All the German civilian needs are being neglected in order to supply the armies on the Eastern Front. There are shortages of all kinds of civilian supplies from clothing to housing. In addition the army is draining manpower from the industries, and as a result the production of war materials is greatly lessened.”