INVASION DANGER

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13138, 12 September 1940, Page 5

INVASION DANGER

MR CHURCHILL’S WARNING on London Part of Hitler’s Scheme

“WE WILL NOT FLINCH” message from capital city

minister of England, j rte P'-'f M Winston Churchill, i ~ fU. H 0 speech to home Le a broadcast e - s mornl ng. | overseas opened his j K that When he | W SJuso of Commons the | L in the H ° t U j f hml eht it probable ‘it dal ll ! at ? t ®acks g Jn September sj.be " r as great as m | Lfd he thie n0 t referring to bar- i ijiis.. be t'Lpon the civi! popula- | “’'“l,Teal battles between '=■ but \° n-hters and the German British nghtei time, when .'J For ce - often 300 to | 1, weather j )ers protected hy fj enemy D ovei in the hope of at;«t,eriCaSta?y or other objectives But these raids had if W ligh La on every occasion irft met hv ou r fighters, the figures 1 !;r0l!e " “tine a loss-of 3. to lin ma;epresentinf> . ln airmen, m fafiines T , * p This effort to se’“'fjllrtt mastery over England ( sr« day of the whole war. So ,wt ¥ Walled, and it had cost the h filha lady Hitler had been «e»y hk fighter forces at a very iiing "P h , went on at this iltb rate, and if »e o£ this vita l Ti'oSany’a Air Force would Minister ‘ N f e ,ld all German preparations fontinued, grea t gcale we re !flr ISvtoing forward. Barges were iitsdily coast of EU rope collecting in ports from f. t t o Brest, and beyond Brest JJ itpßav of Biscay. Convoys and 10 ! ins were also slipping from, "fto S under the protection of p °iv erected land batteries. The 2*8«! •WM'hß "™ ' t oM pre from Hamburg to Bt ~st. . Pje (1 had also been made for starry an Invading force from *jS”ali a t£ concentratipns of kK troops were being kept waitClillwordtosetoft. “WeanJbesure,” said the Prime Mimstei, "Ibere the invader will ‘7 to land, if whether he will come at all, but P l ßn3 were going forward with all ■lie German thoroughness and it was wible at any time that the invasion ioiild be launched against England, Scotland; or Northern Ireland, or ualast all. three. ’ , "K Is going to be tried it cannot la long delayed. The weather may | Ireak at any time, and it is impossie to keep the ships , and troops lilting, harassed as they are by our bombers and very often shelled frpm wr warships which are waiting outside (or them.” Mr Churchill said that we must read the next week or so* as one of ile most important in our history, 'tee days of waiting ranked with tee when the people of Britain wiled for the Spanish Armada, and Drake played his game of bowls. Also the Prime Minister likened them 10 the days of Nelson, but these he said, were of far greater moment, Hd far more Important for , ciyilisata than those brave old days of the last.

"Every man and woman will thereto prepare himself to do his duty.” Our Navy stood on guard, our land toes were ready, and the Air Force at the highest point of strength thad ever reached, “and the R.A.F. Mare of Us superiority, not in nurnperhaps but in men and mach- «•’ All were ready to repel an Behind the men of these toe forces stood 1| million men of «Home Guard, just as much reg- •! ,r soldiers In status as the Grenaw Guards. '

It Is with devout but sure conTOteUay‘God defend the right.’ ” to tombing of'civilians, Mr ChurJ continued, was part of Hitler’s ' ® pl . an ' by which he hoped to i *k anic ’ cow tbe people, and burden, bn the Govern'k’nm our attention, il 6 c . oes be know the British w?! ° l ‘ the tou ?b fibre of the »lth Lo ? don - This wicked man irn»! 0U destr °ylng hatred, this S o ?i r ° dUCt of former wrongs ! s h ,. n , ie doe i s not know us. What tohh tl° n ! ? to kindle a lire in %ld tw rts « here and all over the iff « 1 Slow long after all it Lon,i n COB t^ asrations be has caused 4° U ' 0n b ave been removed.” % witf lish . ted a fire which will bile until tk 3t i ady and consuming ast vesti ses of Nazi n, een burnt out in Bu- & h Old World and the New “»ao«r th!° * u dd a temple to man’s *lll not h 7 „ foanda tions of which Mr 6 y shaken.” to io,K m concluded with a tvi‘•■irage ana^°^- e London, whose r!! «lthe n f rt !M. tltude were the niarrse cap;tai W S <i » l ree people - “From *tossag e J ty ’ J l6 said > “we send ■ ?Mia S forcM uf Cheer t 0 all the jces. We will not flinch!”