NOT YET IN SIGHT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1943, Page 4

NOT YET IN SIGHT

OVERRUNNING OF GERMANY BY RUSSIA VIEWS OF BRITISH OFFICER IN AUSTRALIA MANY FORMS OF ATTACK NEEDED (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. On the facts made public, there seemed little justification for indulging in the fancy that Russia would overrun Germany in the next few months, said Major-General Dewing, commander of the United Kingdom Army Liaison Staff in Australia. “As yet,” he said, “there have been no reports of wholesale German surrenders and the number of German prisoners the Russians claim to have taken does not yet indicate any disintegration of the German armies. Comparatively few people believe that air action alone could cause Germany to surrender unconditionally. Germany will collapse under the cumulative effect of many forms of attack. The Allied air bombardment from the United Kingdom was highly important, however, and should reach its maximum scale next year. We should not allow familiarity with talk of an invasion of Europe to blind us to its difficulties. History holds no precedent for so vast a seaborne operation.”