HITLER’S TECHNIQUE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 245, 13 September 1940, Page 8

HITLER’S TECHNIQUE.

LIKELY INVASION PLANS,

Methods -which Hitler may adopt to attempt the invasion of the British Isles were discussed in a Daventry broadcast, to-day, by Mr Vernon Bartlett, M.P. This, he said, was the principal topic of conversation in London apart from the excellence of the antiaircraft barrage. In the view of some experts the attempt at invasion must take place within a week, while the moon was favourable and the tides exceptionally high, thus enabling barges to float high up the 1 beaches to discharge their cargoes of tanks. Another theory was that the Nazis might wait another month, benefiting by the fog, darkness and east wind, which might be used to drift poison gas across to the British Isles. After the experience of the past week it would not be surprising if Hitler resorted to the use of gas. \ third, and very important, possibility, said Mr Bartlett, was envisaged by the great amount of war material that had been passing from Germany to Italy in the last few days and the massing of Italians on the Egyptian frontier. Hitler could hardly survive a failure in his attempt to invade Britain. and it was possible that he hoped to make our defence less efficient by requiring us to send men to the Mecliterranean theatre. Thus lie would revive Italian enthusiasm, which seemed to be entirely dead. Then he would sav “Germany has Europe, and you have the_ Empire, Why don’t we live side by side?” “I can only say he has got our hacks up so much in the last few days that he will not succeed,” Mr Bartlett observed.