He is now taking another step in preparation for his Anal assault on Britain by attempting to destroy its communications with India and the East, There are doubtless subsidiary motives, especially the control of the Caucasus all wells, without which he foresees he cannot make a long war and keep his vast mass of mechanized vehicles on the ground and in the alr working at full pressure.
'What are his chances' of an_ mediate success against Russia, oF his ultimate success? It is believed that the equipment of the Russian army and alr force, "though numerically large, fs largely out of date and cannot compare in eMciency with the German armies or Luftwatt 'On the other hand, Russia' has the following -advanta; li. The vast numbers she can place {in every theatre of her long front 2." "The tremendous depth of the country over which her troops can full back and still find resources and. bases.
Tt Is possible that, supported Nazi alr concentrations, the Rumanians, poor fighters though they may be, may capture Odesta and press on to the Crimea, The Germans may. strike two main' blows, one on the left of the Rumanians, via Lem~ berg (Lwow) Jaromin and Kiev and the' other on Kaunas, capital "of Lithuania, and Wilno and. thence along the' valley of the Dwina on to Smolensk and Moscow.
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