LOSSES IN RUSSIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1942, Page 4

LOSSES IN RUSSIA

and the fighting power OF THE REICHSWEHR. TROUBLE OF PROPAGANDISTS IN GERMANY. v As Brigadier E. C. Anstcy pointed outin the “Sunday Times” of August 16, ~ a London writer observed recently, ' if the German losses in Russia have been as light as they try to make their people believe it would mean that ’ It the Reichswehr was baulked of victory in Russia by such light losses, its fighting value must have been negligible, which we know it was not.” Ludendorff told the Reichstag in Octooer. 1918, that he was at the end of his resources when he began to call up his eighteen-year-olds. It is now known definitely, Brigadier Anstey states,, that Hitler began to summon his eighteen-year-olds to the colours on January 1 : 1942. The frantic endeavour to get labour from conqured lands is not a. sign of a desire to encumbci German industry which foreigners and have extra mouths to feed; it r- an acknowledgement that every German is needed to fill up the gaps in the German army. Incidentally, on the German home front this increase of foreign workers is having a bad effect on morale, for the people know, as viir own and the French propaganda remind them, that every foreigner releases a German to go and die on the Emstorn Front. Meantime, there is no more talk in German or occupied territory papers of a coming invasin of Britain, and m the British Isles now there are Americans and Canadians who have not come here to play baseball, ana the British Army is undoubtedly trained and armed as it .has never been before.