CLAIMS BY GOERING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 July 1940, Page 5

CLAIMS BY GOERING

NAZI AIR FORCE PREPARED TO ATTACK BRITAIN “ARMED RECONNAISSANCES” THUS FAR. “AMERICAN FEARS OF INVASION RIDICULED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, July 28. Marshal Goering, in a Hearst copyright interview by Karl von Wiegand, said: “American fear of invasion seems a strange delusion, as it is militarily impossible to cross a moat of 3000 miles, particularly if America’s armaments are commensurate with the country’s size and resources. “Our bombers are incapable of flying to the United Slates and returning without landing. There is much talk about a Greenland air base, but, as Colonel Lindbergh says, it is impossible. I hope tne delusion that anyone in Europe would contemplate invasion of the United States will pass away quickly. ' “I stand by my conversation with 1 Mr Sumner Welles, in which I said that sound, economic reconstruction of the world was only possible with America’s co-operation. “The German air force is stronger now than at the beginning of the war. Production is still greater than British, plus American deliveries. My air force is completely prepared at a signal from Herr Hitler, to attack England. The present attacks are merely armed reconnaissance.” General Goering claimed that large supplies of planes and gasoline were captured in France and the Low Countries. QUESTION OF HOURS “LORD HAW HAW” SECONDS THREAT. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 28. Lord Haw Haw, on the German radio today, repeats that a great attack against England is only a question of days, possibly hours. The coastal attacks “are only a mild preliminary.” BOMBING DANGERS MAY BE GREATEST DURING MONTH AHEAD. MR MACDONALD’S WARNING TO PARENTS. (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON. July 28. “The month ahead may be a most dangerous period.” said the Minister for Health, Mr Malcolm MacDonald, in urging parents not to bring the evacuated children home for the summer holidays. He stressed that casualties so far had been much smaller in the country than in the I owns.