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Southland Times, Issue 24232, 16 September 1940, Page 5

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HITLER AT “INVASION” HEADQUARTERS (Received September 16, 2 a.m.) LONDON, September 15. The Sunday Express says that Hitler has arrived at his new “invasion” headquarters in Northern France. He has invited German and neutral journalists to assemble on the French coast to witness the “greatest spectacle of the ages”—the invasion of England. Reichmarshal Goering is also at the advanced air force headquarters, but the order to invade Britain is still not issued and a strange new propaganda is circulating in Berlin that after all invasion may not be necessary. German official quarters are using the argument that Britain can be brought to her knees by the destruction of her economic life by air raids and blockade. CANADIANS’ PREPARATIONS Lieutenant-General A. G. L. McNaughton, commander of the Canadian Corps, addressing troops of the southern garrison, said: “We are building a new Canadian corps to carry the war into enemy territory. It will consist of 14,000 officers and men compared with its 1918 predecessor of 21,000 but will be immensely harder hitting and speedier. The division’s average pace will be increased from two and a-half miles an hour to 12J and it will move more than 100 miles instead of 10 miles in 24 hours. The corps will also include units from other parts of the Empire.” DEATHS IN AIR BOMBING The Air Ministry reports that fuller investigation of Wednesday night’s bombings shows that 110 persons were killed and 260 injured in the London area.