INVASION DISCOUNTED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 264, 5 October 1940, Page 7

INVASION DISCOUNTED.

SIGNIFICANT JAPANESE COMMENT.

(Bee. 9 a.m.) TOKIO, Oct. 4 Mr Masanori Ito Shighzy, a reputed naval expert, writing in the magazine Nippon Hyoron, said the outcome, of the Anglo-German war was difficult. V<> predict, which is significant because virtually all Japanese commentators have been predicting a German vie-

t°He said that while Germany had demonstrated aerial superiority, complete domination of the British air was “not so easy to accomplish. Also, it would he a mistake to assume that air domination would en able the transportation of urge milltary units across tlw* Channel, ocean. * air" mastery was only temporary. He said the German navy was too inferior to attempt a troop invasion of Britain. Thus the Germans were likely to adopt the long-term tactics ut blockade- and constant offensives aimed at the nation’s morale. [1 is officially announced that an enemy bomber was shot down into «ie sea "off the East Coast this morning hy fighters.