The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-15
interpreting:
The War
BY KIRKE u SIMPSON
Associated Press War AMI .

Allied armies in the west
the lesser Rhine in Holland 10
Belfort gap leading to the I'M
river in France are slugging it(,
with bitter-end Nazi defenders W.,
no certainty that winter will Wy
catch them short of a decisiaa
break-through.
They have only weeks to IN .,
avert a weather-bound sta]em.."
unlikely to ease off enough for "a. ,
jor ground operations until ne ,','
March or April. But tn ev a.,
have the word Of their Amer
supreme. commander, General W.
enhower, that it will be no q.
down winter campaign in WY
event. The enemy is due for WI,
ter of .unrelaxing strain agrnr.
as well as by air, he told prs.
group in Paris.
Plight Worse
The Allied commander did.
dismiss the possibility of an NJ.
nal collapse in Germany to w.,
the struggle as suddenly a, %s
First World war ended less ma
a month short of 26 years AN y.
still could happen. The plight ~
Nazi Germany today is inconnsr'
ably worse from military stand
point than was that of inner,
Germany in mid October 1914
when the German crack-up bepa'
That plays no part in Allied !,
Russian plans to push the Alta,
ceaselessly, in and out of Season
If it comes, it will be a WELDON.
short cut to victory but the geneva
made it clear that the victory h,
can now foresee depends in M
way upon possible aid from jnsi5.
Germany.
Front line press observers renor
Allied troops at grips with The n,
are skeptical of reports that tley
are confronted by a rag-tag ami
bcb-tail army hastily thrown "a.
gether to fill nanpower gaps h
action the Nazis continued aqajrr
all odds to prove themselves tousb.
fibered, hard-hitting and resourcs.
full.
There are several factors in tbs
actual military situation in lip
west still to be computed befn,
a winter stalemate OF some sor
can be said to have arrived Gen.
eral Eisenhower inferentially point.
ed out one in noting Russian pro,
! gress on both flanks of the far.
flung eastern war front.
Russian invasion of the east
Prussian breeding ground Of Ger.
man Junkerism was an aeon.
| plished fact. A wide-fronted Red
army break-through to the Ball.
| had all but sealed off many thU.
sands Of Nazi troops northwars
Germany's heretofore deeply
guarded Baltic front was being c.
! posed to sea, air and smphlbloA
attack.
Southwark, Russian, RomalEa
and Yugoslav partisan forces VIII
Allied. help from the Adriatlc size
had virtually sealed off the Balkan
peninsula as an interment camp
for Nazi forces still south Of he
Danube and the Sava. BudapsS
was virtually under seige from
east and south.
There were indications OF MAJ
Hungarian flight from the vast AMI
closing northern Transylvanl'l
pocket reaching Ear eastward q
Budapest to the lower Carpathlan
passes. Enemy troops there seem
ed in a desperate situation Redt'
ton of the pocket would Blk
massive additional Russian toES
into action against Budapest all
Vienna.
Moscow indicated expectation
Hungarian collapse at any mOmeA
but it was clear that the Russiaa
southern drive had reached a POM
gravely menacing Vienna resssl
less of what might happen a; BIZ
dapc-t.
The other great unknown quan
THY in the military situation lay ii
the west. 1t hinged upon EisennoS,
er's state of readiness to denver
a new major blow at the lower
| Rhine gateway to nor hwes''l
Germany in Holland before 'aa