DID HITLER TRY?

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 136, 1 August 1941, Page 5

DID HITLER TRY?

INVASION OF BRITAIN BEATEN BY FIRE ON WATER An amazing" story is published in the New York Times, one of America's most reputable newspapers, emanating from a correspondent who, while remaining anonymous, is vouched for by the paper in question. The story is to tITe cffect that Hitler has actually twice launched his hordes in attempted invasions of England—in August and September, 11)40—and has twicc failed, with catastrophic results. Simple and primitive were the arrangements made by Britain to defy attack. In 1588 A.D. the Spanish Armada ivas scattered in confusion by the "fire ships" which England let adrift into the Spanish fleet, "seven mites from wing to wing.'" So, also, fcn 1940' A.D. Under the waters of the Channel, just far enough below t ; he surface, tanks of oil were strewn. Thousands of tanks of gasoline were nnchored over the same area of water. i Germans were to cross the Channel •n barges carrying 50 soldiers each, and the total military embarkation was to be 80,000 German soldiers at each crossing. In August, 1940, the Hun actually embarked. Half-way across, the British barrage of "fire on water" confronted them. Aeroplanes from the English coast showered incendiary bombs on every German floater. All the Channel was ablaze. What losses were suffered by the German "invaders" may never be accurately computed. It was a holocaust. With the second attempt in Sep-< tember, 1940, and similar British defence, the doomed Hun invaders are believed to have lost 80,000 lives.