GERMAN ARMY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 186, 7 August 1940, Page 7

GERMAN ARMY.

ALL LEAVE STOPPED. Ribbentrop Says Britain Will Have To Accept Peace. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, August 6. The Exchange Telegraph Company's Zurich correspondent says that according to reports from wellinformed observers in Berlin all army leave has been cancelled and large forces of troops are moving towards the coast. , At a Press conference in the Wilhelmstrasse to-day Ribbentrop declared that Britain would be forced to accept peace terms this year. Reconnaissance flights by the Royal Air Force leave little doubt that Germany is busy planning for an invasion of Britain, states the British Broadcasting Corporation. But whether the invasion planned will be by sea or by air, or by both, is not known. The announcer said Britain has reason to believe that sea preparations have been going on for some time. In Baltic ports ana elsewhere the Germans have been practising embarking and disembarking. Big guns «liave been mounted on the coast of France. In spite of these signs, the people of Britain remain calm. Remembering the warning of the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, they are not relaxing their vigilance. The Australian Minister of External Affairs, Mr. J. McEwen, told the House of Representatives at Canberra yesterday that preparations which could be designed for the invasion of Britain were known to be afoot on the German side of the Channel and the North Sea. These preparations, he explained, included troop concentrations in Norway and Denmark and the training of parachutists.