INVASION DAY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 5 July 1943, Page 2

INVASION DAY

PARIS RADIO CHANGES TUNE NOW STYLED A HOAX London, July 3. After weeks of Axis propaganda naming to-day as the date fixed for an Allied invasion of the Continent, the Nazi-controlled Paris radio treated the whole matter as a burlesque. Abruptly changing its tune, the station kept plugging sarcastically, saying that the Allies had not come. The “Evening Standard” suggests that the naming of to-day as the invasion date was an Axis hoax designed to make the French believe that they had been let down. The 8.8. C., in a broadcast to France, said: “To-day is the day Goebbels has elected for an Allied invasion, but there are many days for an invasion before the leaves of autumn fall.” Paris radio early this morning said: “This is the day Britain has promised to liberate France. For two years we have waited for this day, for which we are naturally well prepared. Our radio reporters are already stationed at all strategic points so that Frenchmen may be informed of the first landing on French soil.” At 7 a.m. the radio announced “A front-line dispatch reports that the British and Americans have just sat down for breakfast.” At 8 a.m. they were “still breakfasting.” At 9 a.m. they had “just left the table.’! At 1 p.m. it said “Perhaps the English will make up their minds later in the day. Let us wait a little longer. They will surely land.”—P.A.