INVASION ATTEMPT
STILL A PROBABILITY)
" ILLUSIONS " DEPRECATED
(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 1?. Lieutenant - commander Fletchor, parliamentary private secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, _in ft speech advised Britain to disregard General Freyberg's suggestion ttfalt Britain is unlikely to be invaded and to heed Colonel Knox, who had stalfea that invasion is inevitable. "General Freyberg says the enemy has no illusions about the fate awaiting an airborne invasion of Britain, but he is under very dangerous illusions if he means thereby that the 17,000 casualties the Germans suffered in Crete, >f which only 4000 were killed, will deter Hitler from attempting an invasioh. Hitler is never deterred by tions of human life. The casualties he is incurring on the eastern front arc a measure of what he is willing to sacrifice in an attack against Britain.'^
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24737, 14 October 1941, Page 6
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