Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1943 — Page 10

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SUPPLY SORTAG HAMPERS NAZIS

Failure to Provide Reserve Stocks for Front Believed

Responsible for

Hesitation Over .

New Offensive.

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: By VICTOR GORDON LENNOX Copyright, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

LONDON, June 11.—Lack of adequate reserve of supply dumps behind. their Eastern front may explain the apparent German hesitation to undertake a third large-scale onslaught

against the Russians this summer, according to reliable; information reaching this correspondent. eR

Toward the close of the

brilliantly succhssful Russian

counter-offensive last winter, I reported that the German

reserves in forward areas behind the easternmost line established by the Germans in the preceding summer’s’ campaign. Hitler's “intuition” persuaded him that the Russians could not mount a counterattack. is He contemplated

that the Germans, after a

. quiet winter,

would therefore resume the offensive this summer at the point where it had been broken last autumn. But the Rus- Sa sian counterat- Mr. Lennox tack overran many of those great dumps representing not less than three months reserves. : The Germans have not been able since then to replace those supply losses. Instead, the bulk of their war production has had to be switched elsewhere—notably to Tunisia—to meet the freshly mounting allied threats there.

Material Losses Heavy

It is noteworthy that the allies captured or destroyed the entire equipment of armies numbering be-

tween 400,000 and 500,000 men. During the later stages of the Tunisian battle, when the axis was

-sending most reinforcements, it was

estimated that two units of supply

. were destroyed in transit by the

allies for each unit which reached Tunisia. ; Thus a conservative estimate places the enemy’s losses in Tunisia at no lower than the complete supply and armament requirement for an army of 1,000,000 men—much of this coming straight from. factories. ! There is reason ta believe that Germany’s eastern armies—still estimated by Prime Minister Churchill at 190 divisions, plus 28 satellite divisions—will now be compelled to rely on deliveries direct from factories.

Ruhr Bombings a Factor

‘Prudent commanders, having felt the strength of the red army, would certainly be reluctant to embark on a full-scale summer offensive until at least three months’ reserves had been piled in dumps behind the front. Can German industry provide the needed output to create these reserves, and provide adequate safety margins for the defense of other menaced theaters? The blockade by the allies and the royal air force bombing .offensive against Ruhr industrial districts may impose a negative answer. | Britain’s economic warfare minister, the Earl of Selborne, yesterday said that, in his opinion, there has been a decline in over-all German production of between 15 and 20 per cent as compared to last year,

command under Hitler's direction had accumiilated immense

and a reduction of 35 per cent in Ruhr production alone. . The Ruhr yields these percentages of Germany's total output: Hard

. |coal, 67 per cent; coke, 80 per cent;

pigiron, 60 per cent; steel ingots and casting, 59 per cent; special steels, 60 per cent. The Ruhr’s relation to total axis European production averages 50 and 35 per cent. . These heavy industries cannot be moved elsewhere on any large scale. Proof of this fact is provided by che evident frenzied German efforts to repair the damage wrought in the Ruhr areas by the R. A. F. ~ “As soon as they rebuild their industries, we will knock them down again,” the Earl of Selborne said. “We are determined to destroy systematically Germany’s war potential.” In the light of all these things, British circles are delighted to learn of a projected expansion of United States . army air force 8th bomber commands. : Before this year’s end, 8th air bombers alone should nearly double Germany’s total first line bomber strength, and next spring they will be two and a half times as great. Eighth air force bomber expansion is proceeding faster than the British dared expect. At this moment the number of planes actually arrived in complete condition, or for assembly here, exceeds the available crews. The British now realize that daylight bombings are essential for accurate destruction of selected targets. The greatest enthusiasm is voiced for results achieved- in the recent attack against Kiel. Photographs show remarkable concentration of target area ‘and the R. A. F’s own summary bears eloquent testimony to the first-class job done.

PLAN INSTALLATION OF DEMOLAY HEAD

Otto O. Klingstein will be installed as master councilor of the Indianapolis chapter of the Order of DeMolay at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the chapter house, 1017 Broadway. Others to be installed are George Rasley, senior. councilor; Fred Corya Jr. junior councilor; George Keenan, senior deacon; William Klingstein, junior deacon; Richard Diefender, senior stewart; Paul Sweany, junior stewart; Dan Bald-

'win, chaplain; William Rohr, al-

moner; Kenneth Downs, marshal; Robert Wilson, standard bearer; Homer Tuttle, orator; William Bat-

Philip Raley, treasurer, and Robert Childs, organist. Preceptors will be E. David Rice, Don Katzenberger, William Colliver, Don Hallett, Robert Hartpence, Richard Hostetler and Robert Forbes. Otto F. Klingstein, member of the advisory councily will be the in-

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