CRUCIAL MOMENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1943, Page 4

CRUCIAL MOMENT

REACHED IN THE WAR IN OPINION OF BRITISH COMMENTATOR. RUSSIA & NORTH AFRICA. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, January 18. “The crucial moment,” is how the “Daily Mail’s” military correspondent, Captain Liddell Hart, refers to the general war situation. He says successive extensions and alternations of Russian pressure should multiply the strain upon the Germans, achieving more than the depth of any advance. Captain Hart urges the United Nations to create more distractions and thus give the Red Army a greater chance to exploit its opportunities. The “Daily Telegraph’s” military commentator expresses the opinion that the new Russian offensives almost indicate that Stalin is attempting to secure a decision in the field this winter. The commentator, however, warns the public against under-esti-mating the effect of the North American diversion. He says that although the threat on the Mediterranean front is temporarily inactive, the diversion has come at a time when Hitler’s preoccupations in Russia have reached an increasingly critical stage.