SIMULTANEOUS BLOWS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1943, Page 3

SIMULTANEOUS BLOWS

AGAINST AXIS FROM EAST & WEST PREDICTED BY LENINGRAD RADIO. NERVOUSNESS IN ENEMY COUNTRIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 15. A flood of speculation about the Allies’ plans continues to pour from the Axis, whose ’radios are telling- the people of Italy and Germany that invasion is coming closer every hour and warning' them to stand firm.

Simultaneous blows against the Axis from the east and west are forecast by the Leningrad radio, which says: “The Allies are preparing to overcome the German anti-invasion defences- and invade the European continent. There can be no doubt that the Allied blow from the west will coincide with a crushing blow by the Red Army from the east, and that these will join into a single mighty blow striking death-knell for the Fascists.”

A German military commentator, Captain von Schramm, in a statement in Berlin, mentioned for the first time from any authoritative source that there had been a withdrawal of men from the Russian front to strengthen the western front. Captain Schramm explained that the essential war objectives of the Axis in Europe and east Asia had been attained, and the strategy at present was to await the enemy’s blow.

General Luis Aalamillo, the head of a Mexican mission which has just returned to Mexico City from North Africa, said that United Nations officers in Africa told him that an invasion of the Continent of Europe would take place in a short time, and everything was prepared. General Aalamillo added that the United States Army organisation in North Africa was amazing.