ATTACK DOUBLED

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1940, Page 7

ATTACK DOUBLED

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.——Copyright.

ENEMY PORTS HARRIED SIGN OF CRITICAL DAYS

Received 7.30 p.m. London, September ■ ib. TT is reliably stated that the Royal Air Force. which has been hammering German shipping concentrations and ports in t e Channel and the North Sea, is now much more accurate than the Luftwaffe, says the correspondent of the British United Piess at Vichy. The British fleet and air force are reported to be keeping up a 24-hour attack on German shipping at ports in Norway, Holland, Belgium and France. Tremendous destruction is reported, particularly at Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne, and several supply ships have been set on fire at Le Havre. Great fires are reported on the French coast between Boulogne and Dunkirk. British bombers have also attacked convoys of small boats, pontoons and barges moving down the Channel, hugging the Belgian and French coasts. There is every indication that British air activity has doubled in intensity in the past 48 hours and is now enormously m excess of German air activity. Herr Hitler has arrived at his new invasion headquarters in the north of France, and has invited German and neutral ournalists to assemble on the French coast to witness the greatest spectacle of the ages— the invasion of England, ' says the Sunday Express. Reich-Marshal Goering is also at advanced air force headquarters, but the order to invade is still unissued, and a strange new propaganda is circulating at 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 economic life, air raids and blockade.