INVASION FEARED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 251, 5 August 1941, Page 5

INVASION FEARED.

UNEASINESS IN GERMANY. BRITISH ACTION ON LAND. (United Press Association— Copyright.) LONDON, August 4. Although evidence is accumulating of uneasiness in. Germany, it might be an exaggeration to say that the German people have the “jitters. Nazi scoffings at an “overdue” British invasion tend to hide the Reich population’s general uneasiness. •go far there have been only the faintest Avhispers in British journals of expectations of British land action as a means of- staging a diversion in the occupied territories to relieve the pressure on the Russian front. The. boldest comment is made by the writer of the Avar “hoavs letter” in the “Sphere,” avlio says: “A section of the British public and many friends outside Britain are puzzled by the present apparent inability of the British Army to stage such a slioav.” Tlie Avriter points out that arm-chair critics cannot estimate hoAV much diversion a large-scale raid Avouhl produce, and that the Aveeks since the Bussian AAar broke out liaA'C not been very long for planning such a diversion, the success of Avhieli depends on preparation to the Jast detail. “People are beginning to ask whether avo fear too much another failure on land, or Avhether our policy uoav is to roly entirely on air attack and to keep the home army purely for defence against invasion. Silence is best, but thoughts 'are uncontrollable.”