NAZI LIVES CHEAP

Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1940, Page 7

NAZI LIVES CHEAP

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.

sacrifice in invasion

Received 7.35 p.m, «ew lora, septemoer zi. THE foreign editof of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, Mr. William Philip S'Lmms, to-day published a letter received from an un-named Norwegian shipping magnate describing Germany's recent plans to invade England, in which he asserted that Herr Hitler was reputedly willing to sacrifice 80 per cent. of the attacking force for the purpose of establishing a bridgehead.

The Germans, he said, requisitioned 10,000 Norwegian and other bottoms, the j motors of which they maintained in im- , maculate repair, They installed wheels] in the bows of the boats to enable them , I to be driven ashore at full speed, carry- I ing 35 men. Each German was to wear j I a British uniform. j The Germans planned to approach the British isles from all directions, when ever the weather was foggy, concurrently with the use of 11,000 aeroplanes. The Germans calculated that an invasion would be successful if 20 per cent. of the attackers landed, although they cxpected 50 per cent. of them would succeed. i The vice-president of the Armco In- \ I ternational Corporation, Mr. Robert 1 | Solberg, on returning from France toI day, declared that the Germans had not attempted an invasion of Britain, but had suffered heavy losses of men from manoeuvres in the Channel preparatory to an attack. British Tipped Off. Barges had been sent two miles out to sea and returned to practise landings on the French coast, Mr. Solbert said. British planes and submarines were aware of these activities and waited for the barges. Thousands of Germans had been killed. Mr. Solberg was recently at a French port where the bodies of Germans were , washed up daily. A Dutch lieutenant, Carl Ter Weele, i said many German invasion exercises J had been carried out off the Netherlands ! coast and many lives had been lost as a result of advance information reachlng j the British. Some troops who refused j to take part in the exercises had been sent back to Germany with their hands j tiprL !