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VWAME The Army Weekly * MARCH 26 Germans macy yield Estonia a Lorvia one take @ riskey hIe@ve F the rear for @ detensive si evireE. Rear Admiral Richard Gadow, a Ger man military writer, wrote recently in Deutsche Alleemeine Zeitung: “A success ful invasion of Norway would be a catastrophe for Germany. Norway in the hands of the enemy would mean great economy in the protection of Anglo-Saxon convoys and would constitute a dangerous threat to the Finnish northern flank.A If the Germans writer had been commenting on the significant military events of the past week, and what they mean to Germany, he couldn’t have hit the nail more squarely on the hea On the northern half of the 1,000-mile long Russian front, German-held Rzhev had fallen to Marshal Semion Timoshenko’s troops. Pushing on one Sets Tio iy other beado iy oe Pe, oo, Se PL Od erLe ce ERR eee “Piles eetawces Be gutta oy imtoo the northwest, the Soviets Were huamiiering PROTOS: Cove, Sg. Peter Paviv. 2, Purle. Pole. 5, Sig. Curpe. , FRO OARS Airy Base, Pyotv, Yex.; bartesa, tf vighy, urs. 4, Sy Be o BAT toe boline, foty, RAF; Py beg rhage gtk. ES, Ceieted, Sfiuws; CH ieee. Leetue y se Bote Bel me, oy “se beep Riets be, big Beee Gib Pictures. BU, tog, PAM Bbolwesn, Adie. J p iapet i ie, Fabre; Lewites, AAP Reweetie lee F ¥ bed 8ba ch, Vevning; Schieudl. Seip ee ben 4 pee ‘pa. . Ze Beeb by PAben, Phe Airing at Staraya Russa, one of the last two German strongholds in the north. It was hardly a secret, even to the Germans, that if Staraya Russa fell, the Germans would have to abandon the whole of the Gulf of Fin land area. Germany has no reserves to support her hard pressed troops in this sector. All her available re serves were thrown behind the support of Nazi lines in the Ukraine, where Germany either had to bolster up her retreating armies or suffer a loss of more than a half a million men. These re serves, combined with the mud of the thawed out Ukraine, and the extended Russian commu nication lines, served to check the Russians’ southern advance. But the maneuver left Ger many badly exposed in the north. According to reports leaking out of Germany, the Nazi high command hopes to make a final stand in the east on a line running from Higa to Odessa. ‘This would make their northern fronte along the Dvina River, and wold mean the loss of Estonia and Latvia. ‘That withdrawal constitutes a terrific risk for the Nazis, but is one in which they would have little choice. The backward move would knock Pinland out of the war aliopetner, allowing it to errun by Russian troops. ‘EE Gail, fee opie Beete Seve tee eet ade 9: BEE oe LF ver ata, hep. ghee WHEEL Ue aie Gther Westerr ailies, Miuissia cous teecera Pb g FE A cystitis pe there 2 et ak dno A webb bees thei Clear the eremiy oub of forthern Norway, EMus bbe TRY “BIRR Gey Hite bots ba oy freye aoe ba eave bae the tfireat to fier Arelic supply LiPbich. With i SUEDiifbed, LPiese Not only peeley the long summer days would make the convoys easy prey to submarines and bombing planes. That Germany realizes her risky position is shown by the reports of the massing of her fleet, spearheaded by the battleship Tirpitz, off Trond heim. Augmenting one of the largest fleets of submarines Germany has yet put into her battle of the Atlantic, the surface raiders are expected to be launched on one of the greatest campaigns yet made against Allied shipping. It’s a “now or never” proposition for the Nazis in the northern Atlantic. Meanwhile, Russia is bringing the fighting in the north closer to the German Reich than at any time since 184). Of great significance to the Allies in Africa and Britain is the fact that the Russian push in the Lakemen region will pre vent German divisions from being sent to the threatened south and west walls of Hitler’s Euro pean fortress. MILES RY on Nazis in northern Norway threat to Russia’s Arctic supply lines. Allies can oust them. idle a Murmansk German retreat from Baltic states would knock Finland out of war. Russia would have avenue to Nor way, could harass Nazi convoy raiders, 300 eee rnte of Germany's lack of reserves makes withdrawal from Estonia and Latvia ineviable Nazi move. Staraya Russa Loss of Staraya Russa would force Nazi retreat from Gulf of Finland area. MOSCOW
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