INVASION OF BRITAIN

Grey River Argus, 14 October 1941, Page 6

INVASION OF BRITAIN

GEN. FREYBERG’S SCEPTICISM. NOT SHARED BY NAVAL MINISTER. LONDON, October 12. Lieutenant-Commander Fletcher Parliamentary Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, in a speech, advised Britain to disregard Generhl Freyberg’s suggestion that Britain is unlikely to be invade'd, and to heed Colonel Knox, who says' that invasion is inevitable. “General Freyberg says the enemji has no illusions about the fate awaiting an airborne invasion of Britain, but he is under very dangerous illusions, if he means, thereby, that the 17,000 casualties the Germans suffered in Crete, of which onl> 1,000 were killed, will deter Hitler from attempting an invasion. Hitler never deterred by considerations of human life. The casualties he is incurring on the Eastern Front are a measure of what Hitler is willing to sacrifice, in the attack against Britain.”