Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1942 — Page 14

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‘War Will “Be Pre Prolonged If Opening Is Delayed,

Observers Say.

By LELAND STOWE Copyright, 1042, by The Indianapolis Times d The Chicago Daily News, Inc. MOSCOW. July 30.—If a second front is going to be opened up by Great Britain and America this year and if that second front is going to achieve its main purpose— to draw off enough German divisions to western Europe to enable the Russian army to strike offensively at the earliest moment and so greatly shorten the war—if the second front is going to accomplish these tremendously vital things, then it has got to come before Sept. 1. This fact is dictated by the powerful German army, which is now posted from Rostov, all along

the lower Don for nearly 200 miles| °

to the northeast up to the outer approaches of Stalingrad and poised for a final maiming dagger thrust to the banks of the Volga and the shores of the Caspian sea.

After August Too Late

Unless a second front is created or can be created in time to help the Russians ward off this deadliest blow that Hitler can hope to strike against all the allied nations in 1942—which means unless the British and Americans unleash a great onslaught in western Europe some ‘time in August—it is virtually certain that the greatest and almost "immeasurable gain that a second

front could conceivably accomplish |-

will pe lost. In the sense of conserving the Soviet Union’s war-making strength at its maximum capacity, a second front any time after August will be very late, if not too late. Oil Production Is Peril

If Hitler's legions reach’ the Volga and Caspian before September, they will have isolated some 80 per cent of Russia’s oil production and 70 per cent of all the oil refineries in the Soviet Union. After that an Anglo-American second front in the west will be much more of a nuisance to the Germans’ than a dangerous strategic threat. . These are facts which the commanders of the Red army, the Russian soldiers and the Russian people understand all too well. But they do not know whether the British and American military leaders and the British and American peoples begin to appreciate what these facts mean. In the opinion of the best qualified foreign military: observers inside Russia, if a second front does not come in time to save the Caucasus, the war will be prolonged from one to three extra years, at least. Such a prolongation almost inevitably would mean the sacrifice of an additional 1,000,000, 2,000,000 or 3,000,000 American lives and about as many additional British

Russian Withdrawal Still

y Mystery to Allied Experts

. By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Copyright, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Dally News, Inc.

LON DON, J uly 30. —Several mysteries have cropped’ up in connection with the present Russian withdrawal from Ros-

tov and ‘the Don bend, and assisted by reports from the

their; solutions are in no way fighting front.

First and foremost stands the fact that the Russian have made only one grand stand since heavy fighting began

early in J uly. They have defended Voronezh tenaciously and have recovered ground But in the Don: bend they have done nothing more than fight a stout rearguard action, according to all ac-

there.

counts.

German pa vanced at the

miles daily. Russians Mark Time

Despite the rapidity of their ad-

vance the Germans have not seri

ously claimed any large amount of ‘booty or prisoners, such as would have fallen to them if they had smashed a RusWhy, in view of the value of this rich agricultural region, have not the Russians stood and fought? The answer must be that the Russians h a ve Mr. Stoneman something important to pull out of their sleeves when they have got the Germans

sian army.

where they want them.

Again at. Rostov the Russians

have not made a serious all-out stand. Fighting has been furious enough but it was not the sort of struggle that the Russians put up at Sevastopol and the Russian armies that ‘defended the Rostov district appear to be fairly intact —ready to fight another day.

Nazis Not Depleted

Rostov, after all, was highly worth defending from many viewpoints. Why was it not defended as the Russians generally defend a city]

which they desire to hold at all costs? : There is another mystery which deserves to be cleared up. The German armies on the central and northern fronts do not seem to have been seriously depleted in order to assist the southern push which, according to popular view, should attract their principal interest. In this case the Germans may have something up their sleeves— another assault on Moscow, for instance. They still hold practically all of the advanced striking points from which the Russians tried vainly to oust them last winter and they are in as good a position as ever to try an offensive in that ared.

r units have adate of nine miles daily in an easterly direction, and if their maneuvers are to be counted, they ‘have made nearer to 13

divisions have been shifted "from France to the eastern front for the present campaign must. not be taken to mean that German forces in France and the low countries have heen depleted during the last six months. As a matter of fact, they are probably as strong as they ever were. Thus, there is no reason to believe either that thc establishment of a second front is easier than it was. or that the Germans are ignoring the anglo-American threat from the west. Despite their heavy concentrations in Russia and western Europe and their three-division army in Egypt, the Germans still have plenty of infantry and panzer divisions free to send wherever they are needed. They have simply got enough men, material and aircraft to put what they need wherever they need it at this stage of the war.

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