INVASION THREAT
grave AVARNING
(Rec. 1.40 p m.) LONDON, Oct. 12. Lieut.-Commander Fletciier (larliamentary Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty), in a speech, advised Britain to disregard General Frey berg’s suggestion that Britain is unlikely to be invaded and to heed Colonel Knox, who says an invasion is inevitable. “General Freyberg says the enemy have no illusions about the late awaiting an air-borne invasion of Britain, hut he is under very dangerous illusions if he means thereby that the 17,000 casualties the Germans suffered in Crete, of which only 4000 were killed, will deter Hitler from attempting an invasion. Hitler is, 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 an attack against Britain.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 267, 13 October 1941, Page 6
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135INVASION THREAT Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 267, 13 October 1941, Page 6
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