GERMAN PLAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 136, 10 June 1940, Page 10

GERMAN PLAN

SECOND PHASE

ATTACK ON ENGLAND

ITALY "AT HER PEAK" THEN

LONDdN, June 9.

There is no clear indication yet ■of Italian intentions, but hints and conjectures continue to come in from various sources.

Signor, Ansaldo, editor of Count Ciano's newspaper "Telegrafo," gave his weekly broadcast to Italian troops this morning. After an account of the fighting in France he werit on to make the deliberately misleading statement that England had abandoned France to her fate—an assertion belied by the fact that British troops and the Royal Air Force are fighting sideVby side with their -French allies.

After declaring that France would not be able to offer a prolonged resistance, Signor Ansaldo said that the second phase in the1 German plan would be an attack on England. "It is during this second phase that you will see Italy at her peak," he said.

He referred to Signor Mussolini's nomination of Marshal de Bono as Commander-in-Chief of the army of the south as an event of great significance, and said that their comrades who were already, part rf that army would probably be the advance guard of the new struggle.

Reports are still coming in about changes in the sailing plans of Italian ships. It is said that Italian vessels are being ordered to stay in port or make for-, a neutral port if far from home, or to head for Italy if they are close to their home bases.