GERMAN PLANS

Grey River Argus, 25 February 1941, Page 6

GERMAN PLANS

AGAINST BRITAIN. LONDON. Fbruary 21. The latest version of Hitler’s plan for defeating Britain is summed up to-day in an article published by a semi-official German news agency. Under the heading, “Berlin’s Strategic Plan,” the article says the view is expressed in Berlin that an intensive U-boat campaign, in co-opera-tion with surface craft, can effect a deadly blockade of the British Isles. Great successes are expected in Berlin from air attack on armament industries and communications in Britain.

An attempt will also be ma’de by Germany, says the article, to find a radical military sciutiion for the Mediterranean problem, in order to enable Germany to take advantage of every opportunity for a direct attack on Britain. The article adds that the possibilities of invasion are so manifold that it would be difficult for the British to see through feint attacks.

The article concludes that Germany. will avoid the mistake made by General von Ludendorff in the last war of using up his reserves in widely separated theatres of war, which thus prevented him from forcing a decision in the west.