ALUMINIUM BOATS FOR THE INVASION OF ENGLAND

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9090, 8 July 1915, Page 5

ALUMINIUM BOATS FOR THE INVASION OF ENGLAND

“Times” and Sydney "Sun” Services. (Received July 7, 7.40 p.m.) PARIS, July 7. The Germans are reported to be constructing immense defensive works in Upper Alsace, apparently designed to render ttieir positions practically impregnable, thus liberating troops for an offensive elsewhere. Now heavy guns have been brought to Altkirch. An Alsatian declares that the Germans have a second line of fortifications midway between the Vosges and the Rhino, running the entire length of Alsace, and defended by 250,000 of the Landsturm. The “Matin” believes that the dosing of the Belgian frontier, and the rushing up of fresh German troops to Belgium, heralds another try to capture Calais, and to bombard Dover with Jong range guns, in order to send troops in aluminium boats to invade England. A series of attacks has been! made recently by the Germans upon the Allied front, apparently without any particular object, and these efforts are interpreted as a preparation for a severe offensive The High Commissioner reports:—■ T LONDON, July 7, 3.15 a.m. Unofficial reports from the Continent indicate that great German forces are being transferred from the eastern to the western front, suggesting a further attack in the direction of Calais.