NAZI FANTASY

Evening Star, Issue 23692, 27 September 1940, Page 8

NAZI FANTASY

THE INVASION ARMY TRAINED TO USE WATER SKIS Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright BERLIN, September 26. (Received September 27, at 9.7 a.m.) An officially-iftspired description of an army training for the invasion of Britain claims that hundreds of specialists are distributed among units along the Continental coast. They were trained on drill grounds north-westward of Berlin immediately after the French capitulation, and were selected from all branches of the services on a basis of a questionnaire in which 63 questions covered athletic prowess, knowledge of languages, technical skill, and acquaintance with British geography and affairs. Unmarried men under 23 were preferred. Ten thousand have been trained! to use water skis constructed of cork, on which it is possible to skate •cross water at the rate of five miles an hour. NORWEGIAN ROYAL HOUSE ABOLISHED BY NAZIS FAMILY PERMANENTLY EXILED OSLO, September 25. The German Commissioner in Norway, Herr Terboven, broadcasting, admitted the failure of the negotiations to bring the Norgewian political parties into line with the German demands. For this reason the Germans decreed •as follows; — 1. That the royal house be abolished and the royal family and the Norwegian Government abroad be permanently exiled. 2. That a German-controlled State Council of 13 members be appointed. 3. That all political parties be dissolved. Herr Terboven said that political parties' hitherto prevented the people from learning the truth about German aims and consistently . aimed at proBritish reorientation. GERMAN ARMOURED UNITS ARRIVAL IN SPAIN LONDON, September 26. (Received September 27, at 8 a:m.) Neutral observers on the Spanish frontier report that 500 ; German armoured cars arrived at Bilbao a fortnight ago, detrained, and proceeded southward GRAF SPEE OFFICERS ESCAPE FROM ARGENTINE BUENOS AIRES, September 26. (Received September 27, at 8 a.m.) i A German source says that three of the 15 escaped Graf Spee officers have reached Germany, four are in Brazil awaiting a Spanish ship from which they will transfer to a German boat at sea, and three are on board a ship going to Japan. FEDERAL ELECTIONS GOVERNMENT PARTY’S POSITION SAME MAJORITY EXPECTED SYDNEY, September 26. The latest development in the Federal elections is the good progress being made by Government candidates in the doubtful seats, where the distribution of • preferences is' favouring them in most of the 15 doubtful seats. It is now predicted that the Menzies Government will be returned with almost the same majority as in the last Parliament —42 to 32—and a very slender majority of about three in the Senate. VOLUNTARY SAVING IN BRITAIN GREATER EFFORTS URGED (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 25. Lord Stamp, speaking at Bristol, praised the result of voluntary saving, but urged still greater efforts. Nearly everyone now was having a very hard time, and the civilian population was in the front line. The ordinary man’s contribution to winning the war must be threefold, “ hard work, hard nerves, hard living.” BRITAIN'S WARTIME TRADE THE AUGUST FIGURES (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 25. The exports of United Kingdom goods in August were valued at £32,554,729, compared with £31,189,244 in July, and £37,076,974 a year ago. The figure for imports was £95,019,856, compared with £87,007,530 for the previous month and £81,073,119 for August last year. The re-exports in these periods were respectively £1,391,968 and £1,819,264, and £4,488,380.