HITLER’S BOASTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1940, Page 6

HITLER’S BOASTS

FURTHER FALSEHOODS SAYS ENTIRE B.E.F. WAS DESTROYED BOGUS CHARGES AGAINST ALLIES. DESTRUCTION OF WORLD PROPHESIED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) BERLIN, July 19. In his Reichstag speech, Herr Hitler said the Germans found in a railway station in France secret documents of every meeting of the Anglo-French War Council, bearing the handwritten annotations of General Gamelin, M. Daladier, General Weygand and all the rest. “These show,” he said, “how the small nations were to be brought into the conflagration. Britain and France planned to spread the war throughout Europe. We owe our knowledge of the Democracies'

war plans to their garrulousness. “During the winter they looked out for new opportunities to plunder. I concentrated on increasing the Reich’s military efficiency. The democracies intended, after occupying strategic points in Norway, to march into Sweden, but the British troops landed in Norway were notable only for the unscrupulous inadequacy of their equipment and training. They were definitely inferior from the outset. Then we learned that an' enemy advance on the West Front could be expected, but the enemy actions greatly increased the ease of our break through. This operation, which included the destruction of the entire British Expeditionary Force, was not primarily directed at the taking of Paris, but at reaching the Swiss frontier.

“After the destruction of Britain, no Churchill will remain to attempt rehabilitation. People in London will have a totally different idea from Mr Churchill’s. There are no grounds for the continuation of the war. British statesmen do not realise what a German offensive against the United Kingdom will mean. Mr Churchill and his Government will flee to Canada, afraid to face the music. I prophesy that the whole world will be destroyed unless England listens to reason.

“During the campaign in France, I aimed to completely destroy the British and French armies. I succeeded in deceiving the enemy staffs by inverting the Schleiffen plan. My object for twenty years has been friendship with Italy and England. I even today am sad because I am unable to achieve friendship with England. Germany’s political and military co-opera-tion with Italy is complete and will lead to final victory. Italy, from the outbreak of war, kept strong units of the enemy occupied and finally took up arms of her own accord. The last few months have proved that my conception of the future is right and the enemy’s wrong. Nothing will ever crush Germany. The Reich is stronger militarily than ever before.’ 9 FOREIGN BROADCASTS (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) BERLIN, July 19. A translation of the Reichstag proceedings in foreign languages, including English, was broadcast after the German transmission. Local Nazi group leaders were ordered to arrange communal broadcasts for those without wireless sets. All the German stations broadcast Hitler’s declaration. CELEBRATION PLANS “ON HITLERS RETURN FROM LONDON.” ERECTION OF DECORATIONS IN BERLIN. (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 19. “The Times” correspondent on the German frontier says neutrals in Berlin report big preparations for Hitler’s triumphal return from London. Newspapers give prominence to arrangements, including a procession down the Unter Der Linden, where decorations are being erected. All windows along the procession route and nearly all Berlin’s hotels are booked up. The ceremony was previously fixed for July 27, but has been postponed to August 1, “because bad weather has delayed the invasion.”