OVERSEA CABLE NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1940, Page 1

OVERSEA CABLE NEWS

Severe London Raid. Heavy casualties were caused in London's longest night raid of the war. Guernsey Stripped. Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands occupied by the Germans, is being rapidly stripped of food. Gales Hamper Invasion. Autumn gales still beating up the Channel must have a considerable effect on German invasion plans. Tactics in Egypt. British tactics in Egypt are destruction of the enemy's forces, according to an official spokesman at Cairo. Egypt Will Fight. Egypt's army of 30,000 men will unquestionably fight at the appropriate time, says the Cairo correspondent of the London Times. More Oil for Germany. Doubling of Rumania's oil exports to Germany is the most important result of the Rumanian swing to the Axis, it is stated at Bucharest. Germany's Defeat in Air. Germany has failed to defeat Britain in daylight raids, and night raids have done little real military damage, says an official review of the war in the air. French Sentiment Swings. Anti-British feeling in occupied France has disappeared and all are pinning hopes on England, according to an Englishman who has escaped from France. Close Watch on Germans. From dawn to dark British reconnaissance aircraft have been combing the enemy coastline to note any sudden changes in the disposition of the German sea forces. Still in Danger. Mr. Churchill minced no words when he told the House of Commons Britain was still in danger of invasion, but he spoke hearteningly upon the outcome of past and future battles in the air.