GERMAN ONSLAUGHT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1939, Page 7

GERMAN ONSLAUGHT

ANTICIPATED ON WESTERN FRONT On Rejection of Hitler’s “Peace” Proposals INTENSIFICATION OF SUBMARINE AND AIR WARFARE EFFORT TO BREAK BRITISH BLOCKADE (By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright.) LONDON, September 28. The movement of troops and material westward through central Germany was at its height tonight, says the Basle correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain. Mr-George Kidd, of the staff of the United Press of America in Berlin, states that Germany tonight was reported to be organising a full-scale attack on the Allies by sea and air. Foreign diplomats believe that Herr Hitler, who visited Wilhelmshaven today, is ready to attack Britain and France with his full force if they reject his “final peace proposals,” and that the attack may come before the weekend. Competent Nazi sources indicate that the offensive will probably include intensification of submarine warfare in an effort to break the blockade, and incessant air attacks on the British Fleet, naval bases, merchant ships, convoys, and important military objectives in England and France. Germany hopes to make Britain’s trade with Scandinavia precarious. Reuter’s Paris correspondent says that Holland has raised the level of the water in the canals at all strategic points with a view to eliminating delay should defensive flooding of the countryside become necessary. All roads from Germany have been provided with anti-tank defences. Signposts have been removed for many miles from the frontier. Indications of intense military activity on the German side of the Switzerland border were reported in a Basle message vesterdav.

Trains carrying ordinary travellers were stated, in a radio report, to have been delayed repeatedly because of heavy military train movements along the strategic line on the German side of the Switzerland frontier to the Rhine plain.