THE INVASION

Grey River Argus, 1 May 1944, Page 5

THE INVASION

ASSEMBLING FLEETS Raids by' Germans LAus. & N.Z. Press Alsti ) (Rec. 9.10) LONDON, April 29. A dramatic appeal for industrial peace was made by Mr Bevin during a speech to Bristol workers. “Whatever your quarrels, remember that from now on the hour-glass is running out minute after minute.” he said. “I dare not tell you the exact moment when it will finish, although I know it. I ask you now not to think of bosses, but of men who will be scaling beaches oncthe other side.” Four Scotland Yard detectlyes made a second raid in Paddington on. headquarters of the Trotskyist Revolutionary Communist Two others searched rooms in the Paddington home of "J'ock” Hasten, a party official, who surrendered to the Edinburgh police. Haston whose name is given as James Ritchie Haston, appeared in the Court at Edinburgh charged with contravention ot 'the Trades Disputes and Trades Unions’ Act in Newcastle. He was ordered to Newscastle. , The Madrid newspaper Arnoa, after reviewing the coincidence ot the high tides and sunrises in Europe, declared that the Allied invas. on • would occur about 4 a.m. on Thursday or on Sunday. If neither of these dates is right the invasion will not occur until the last week in May. The German marine expert, Hans Runhardt said: “British mining activity has increased three-fold in tne | past few weeks. German minesweepers are particularly hard-worked because mining is now a real science with ten to twelve different sorts of mines in every well-laid minefield The naval commentator of the German Official News Agency seated: j The Allies were deliberately sparing j Channel harbours from air attack because they hoped to use them for the invasion. He added: “Enemy activ- ’ ity has been noticeably intensified in ■ the Channel area and other seas , which are important for the great in- . vasion. The Allies are increasingly , mining sea lanes which the Germans j are using for supplies, partly to para- , lyse these supplies and partly to pro- < tect future landings bv erecting mine j barriers against a German naval at- j tack. , i A Berlin correspondent quotes < German military officials as ( saving that German aeroplanes on ] Thursday night attacked masses of j shins in harbours on the western j coast of England. He said the Ger- 2 man Air Force is attacking a huge j Allied invasion fleet which is assembl- ] ing in British ports. i

Further Enemy Raid WEST OF ENGLAND TOWN BOMBED. (Rec. 11.10.) LONDON, April 29. ' Enemy ’planes were over Western England before dawn on Saturday. Casualties and damage are reported from one town. Three of the raiders were destroyed. RABBITS ATTACK WEST WALL. (Rec. 11.0.) LONDON, April 30. “The Times’s’’ Stockholm corres-'' pondent quoted a Berlin report saving that orders had been issued for the destruction of rabbits, in Flanders, where they have become a nuisance by burrowing under German minefields behind the Atlantic Wall, frequently exploding well-laid mines. ENEMY PROBLEM. CAMOUFLAGE ON BRITISH COAST’. (Rec. 11.10.) LONDON, April 30. The Stockholm “Dagens Nyhether’s” Berlin correspondent, quoting German military authorities., says: An increased use of camouflage since the enemy’s Mediterranean amphibious operations is making it more difficult for the Luftwaffe reconnaissance ’planes to locate the position of ship and troop concentrations on the British coast. In spite of this, photographs taken during the last few mornings reveal that more and more ships are assembling in the south ot England ports. JUTLANDERS MOVED (Rec 6.30) LONDON, April 29. Messages to Stockholm, from Malmo. report that Germans have begun mass evacuation of a wide strip along the north and west coast of Jutland, the population being housed further inland.