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Show there is no reason for either ex-i treme view. The Russians cannot win the war against Germany alone and the probability is that Germany will be beaten only by the combined assault of the full forces of the United Nations. be over before we could reach the scene of combat. There were expressions of alarm over what the Communists might do to Europe, with some timid souls believing that a striking Russian Rus-sian success would mean the development de-velopment of an entirely different world. Now, the ghost of that absurd idea is temporarily out of sight. It is the other way. Our timid citizens citi-zens are now afraid that the Germans Ger-mans will knock out the Red army, ar-my, take entire control of Russia and then turn to face the combined com-bined Anglo-American might in the western half of Europe. The truth of the matter is that t , , ( I I I I I I I I I I In FORWARD MARCH By II. S. Sims, Jr. , i i i i ii iii ' 'i 1 1 ' 1 1 i i i t i ' DFCISIOX IX NORTH AFRICA M TTRN ON SUri'LIES BATTLE IN RUSSIA GOES ON The long expected battle for Tunisia Tu-nisia is on and a look at the map reveals that the Germans occupy a desperate position. From the March line, in the south, to Bizerte, in the north, on the shore of the Mediterranean, a distance of between 300 and 400 miles, the Axis forces occupied a corridor about seventy miles wide. This is a dangerous position, as any military expert knows. Un- less Gen. Rommel can alternate his attacks, scoring repeated victories victo-ries against the three-pronged attack at-tack that threatens him, he is lost. The British First army in the north, the Americans and French in the center and the Eighth am.y in the south constitute a triple threat that bodes no fortune for the enemy. Unless defeated in detail the Allied forces will inevitably inevi-tably score a break through somewhere some-where and that will be disaster for the Axis. The victory will not come overnight, over-night, without fighting. It will be the reward of bold advances, continuous con-tinuous attacks and unceasing bombardment from the air. It will cost lives. But, it will be ours. Supplies To Africa Move By Sea . . . Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, British officer in command of naval forces in connection con-nection with North Africa and Mediterranean operations, says that since the opening of the campaign, cam-paign, the Allied navy and air force have brought 780 ships safely safe-ly into port and that "under two per cent" of all merchantmen bound for those ports were lost. By contrast, he says that the offensive against the Axis' seaborne sea-borne supplies, designed to prevent the shipments from reaching Tunisian Tuni-sian ports, has resulted in the sinking of one-third of all ships involved. Submarines are responsible respon-sible for most of the sinkings out they had the assistance of the air forces. German Aircraft Shortage . . . One of the great improvements of the war, from the standpoint of the United Nations, is the apparent appar-ent shortage in German aircraft, which has been apparent in the failure of the Nazis to give General Gen-eral Rommel greater aerial strength and the inability of the Luftwaffe to protect German industries in-dustries from Allied air attacks. Recently, the British Air Ministry Minis-try reported that attacks on Allied Al-lied shipping were "negligible'' so far as planes are concerned. The Ministry says that the former teamwork of enemy fliers and submarine crews is no longer a factor in the battle of the seas. This lends emphasis to the belief that Germany is without adequate aerial strength. Along the same line is the comparatively com-paratively insignificant attacks on British ports by German planes. In 1942, British ports were bombed by as many as ten planes only six times, despite the Nazi habit of describing such attacks as "heavy" and Berlin's references to "waves" of bombers. By contrast, the British Air Ministry points out that during the three months ending January 21st, twenty-four Axis Mediterranean Mediterran-ean ports were bombed on more than 250 occasions. In the nine months ending last September, more than 300 Axis vessels were sunk or seriously damaged by Allied Al-lied aircraft. One enemy port has been hit by more than two thousand thous-and tons of bombs in a single month. This information from the British Brit-ish Air Ministry seems to be conclusive. con-clusive. There is little reason to doubt that Germany has lost the aerial war which she began with such high hopes and so many boasts. Russia Can't Win Alone . . . The Russian reverse at Kharkov which represents definite proof that the Red army will not win the war in a few more months, will bring another reversion of American opinion. While the victorious Reds were advancing, pushing the Nazis before them, one heard the prediction predic-tion that Stalin would soon be in Berlin, and that he would be in a position to dictate peace and that we must hasten our invasion of Europe for fear the fighting might |