INVASION MENACE EMPHASIZED

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 189, 9 May 1944, Page 5

INVASION MENACE EMPHASIZED

Propaganda In Reich LONDON. May 7. Berlin radio admitted today that the German Army could notpreveht the Allies landing in Europe. “The Allied invasion forces will be protected by an enormous air umbrella'so powerful that it will be Impossible to prevent them securing a foothold,” said the radio. As invasion fever throughout occupied Europe heightens, the Nazi Press and radio are conducting a campaign which is apparently designed to prepare the German people for the worst.. Among predictions about the Allied invasioni aie that the Allies have assembled 100,000 landing craft, that the invasion will open thia month after the Allied bombing offensive has reached its peak, and that the main attack will be across the Channel, with another attack on the south of France and possibly diversionary landings in Denmark and Norway. . When the full Allied force is Handed. it is said, it will consist of 2,000,000 men 1,500,000 of whom will come from Britain and 500,000 from the Mediterranean. Parachute and glider landings will be made well inland. One of the “surprises” of the invasion, Nazi commentators say, will be an A lied amphibious tank that can fight on land or water.