REVISED PLANS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 September 1943, Page 3

REVISED PLANS

FOR U=BOAT WARFARE ATTRIBUTED TO GERMANY. ATTEMPT TO DELAY OPENING OF “SECOND FRONT.” (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK. September 26. The belief that the Nazis will reopen U-Boat warfare in a final attempt to forestall the opening of the second front is expressed by diplomatic quarters who maintain close contact with Germany, says the “HeraldTribune’s” Istanbul correspondent. They say that Germany has abandoned hope that submarines can starve Britain into submission, but hopes that heavy attacks by technically improved U-boats may make the Allied shipping position as serious as it was last spring, in which event the more cautious Allied leaders might postpone opening the second front, thus increasing friction between the democracies and Russia. The Wehrmacht would withdraw in Russia to a line approximately following the 1941 frontiers. The Nazis would attempt to utilise Allied dessension to persuade the Russians that since ah the Soviet territory has been liberated and the second front not opened, the Russians would do well to sign an armistice or arrive at a tacit understanding under which the eastern front offensive would cease. There is no hint so far from Russian quarters of any such arrangement being contemplated.