Burning Oil To Guard German Harbours
STOCKHOLM, June 26. All entrances to Atlantic harbours will be barred by a screen of burning oil spread over the surface of the water when attack is imminent. This will make passage cf any boat impossible. This is stated by latest issues of German newspapers referring t to Goebbels, who is playing up oil as Germany’s new invasion weapon. The German Press also publishes pictures of concrete anti-tank traps guarding the Italian coast. Is Invasion Off? Broadcasting on Paris radio, Jean Paquis declared: “The battie of the Ruhr has become a second front. Allied raids on Western Europe, particularly the Ruhr, have become so violent that they are no longer an extensive propaganda campaign but stark reality. The Allies at present speak less about invasion, and it may be presumed that a landing has been called off for some time. The Allies intend that, constant bombing shall force Germany and Italy to submit, but the European fortress is very different from Pantellaria.”
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Northern Advocate, 28 June 1943, Page 4
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