ATTACK OF NERVES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 May 1943, Page 3

ATTACK OF NERVES

INDICATED IN AXIS COUNTRIES GLOOMY SPECULATION. REGARDING COMING ALLIED ACTION. (By Telegi'aph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, May 14. Axis radio spokesmen and newspapers are hourly increasing Europe’s uncertainty and trepidation by arguing from every angle, from that of an immediate invasion of Europe to that of the impracticability of a second front. It is now apparent that the Axis is suffering from the greatest attack of nerves since long before the outbreak of war. Allied propaganda is proving most successful judging from the reports pouring in from all corners of Europe. The British United Press Stockholm correspondent says German seventeen-year-olds are being called up for military service, in Hitler’s latest effort to strengthen manpower. Axis newspapers apd radios meanwhile are anxiously discussing what the Allies next intend. A military commentator, writing in “Das Reich,” contends that the Allies will invade Europe while the Axis main forces are engaged with the Russians. He admitted that the Italian fleet had suffered heavily, and warned that the Germans should not under-estimate the advantages the Allies had gained in North Africa. The Berlin radio’s commentator, Captain Sertorius, in trying to guess the result of Mr Churchil’s visit to Washington, argued that a double offensive, against Europe and Japan, was impossible, and that the switching of the offensive against Japan was politically unlikely, and that therefore the Allies were most likely to follow the lines of the Casablanca decisions.