INVASION PLANS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24417, 1 October 1940, Page 7

INVASION PLANS

DANGER NOT OVER THE WEATHER FACTOR GERMAN PREPARATIONS (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph -Copyright) LONDON. Sept. 29. Naval circles give a warning that autumn and winter will not remove the danger of invasion A seasonal lull, like a second summer which usually occurs in the next few weeks, would permit flat-bottomed boats to navigate the Channel. The German preparations in Channel ports are too consistent, to constitute merely an attempt to divert British bombers. A German broadcast boast that whether Britain is invaded oi not the German blockade by sea will speedily defeat her, had its hollowness revealed by two happenings over the week-end The squadron of United States destroyers steamed proudly into a British port after what the captains describe as “an uneventful crossing,’ 1 and British destroyers, guided by British aeroplanes. scoured the North Sea for three and a-half days until they found and picked up British airmen in a rubber boat. It it true that some German aircraft attempted to prevent the rescue of these men and were speedily chased away British command of the sea round all her coasts is still supreme, and the German talk is only likely to draw strong attention to the fact — a result which German lack of understanding of world opinion is unable to realise.