INVASION PLANS

Grey River Argus, 26 February 1944, Page 5

INVASION PLANS

BRITISH RAILWAY’S PART

(Rec. 11.30) LONDON, Feb. 25. General Montgomery had a heart-to-heart talk with representatives of railway workers in Britain about transport during the coming offensive. He chatted individually, before and after giving an address, with engine drivers, signalmen, Xyome-'n porters, and railway executives. Mr. John Benstead, General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymeri, said: General Montgomery’s appeal to railwaymen to see the job to the end will not need emphasising to our members.”

In France

ROMMEL’S INSPECTION. LONDON, Feb. 24. According to the Vichy radio Marshal Von Rommel, who is in charge of the German anti-invasion forces, yesterday inspected .fortifications along the coast of Southern France from the Alps to the Pyrenees. UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT. LONDON, Feb. 24. The German News Agency says that somewhere in France there is a secret dump of equipment for the French underground movement. The equipment is being produced in England and includes a whole vast range of weapons. INTRICATE PREPARATIONS. " TO ASSIST ALLIES. (Rec. 10.50.) LONDON, Feb. 25. “There is a secret dump of equipment somewhere in France which is being mass-produced by the English for French terrorists,” said 'Herr Schroeder, chief correspondent of the German Overseas News Agency ovei the Berlin radio, discussing hidden arms in France. ' Herr Schroeder added: lheie comes from England for instance, a simple, easily-hgndled automatic pistol. The British also supply special daggers, small magnetic and adhesive mines for blowing up vehicles, explosives in tubes for destroying aircraft and thermite detonators. There are also various preparations, such as vaseline mixed with emery, to destroy "ears, tablets to ruin petrol. Some ingenious brain in London even de-j vised a sort of itching powder of iron filings to spoil uniforms.