INVASION WARNING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 11 January 1944, Page 5

INVASION WARNING

PARIS RADIO STATEMENT ALLIED FORCES ACROSS CHANNEL ZERO HOUiTaWAITED (Rec. 10.30 a.m.) London, Jan. 10. In an invasion warning Paris Radio said: “France cannot survive a war from outside and a civil war within. With massing British and American invasion forces across the Channel we have the certainty that France will soon be drawn once more into the fiery cauldron. We are about to witness tremendous military operations compared with which the war of 1940 will be dwarfed into insignificance. Our towns and villages will be razed to the ground. Our roads and railways will be hotly contested. We must, in addition, reckon with the de Gaullist shock troops who will begin operations as soon as the invasion gives them the signal. That is why the most drastic measures must be taken to eradicate the terrorist movement.

“British and American invasion forces are assembling on the Kent and Cornwall coasts for the decisive battles of this war, but German U-boats are on the alert in the Channel, ready to nounce on the invasion fleet. General Eisenhower is putting the final touches to a gigantic plan that will in the near future bring action to German troops along the whole of Europe’s coastline, who are waiting for zero hour. They are manning every rock position, every hill and every hidden bay along the edge of the fortress of Europe. Tanks, artillery, flame-fhrowers and ma-chine-guns are' waiting on the beaches to repel the invader.”