ATTACK ON BRITAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1940, Page 5

ATTACK ON BRITAIN

GERMANV STRIKING NOW | ACCORDING TO BERLIN NEWS AGENCY. DENIAL OF HALF-HEARTED ACTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, July 31. The Berlin news agency stated: “Following the conclusion of the campaign in France the impression has arisen that Germany is waging the war against Britain half-heartedly. Nothing could be more erroneous. Germany is conducting the war against Britain with the same determination and certainty of victory as against Poland and France. The burden of this effort now rests on the shoulders of a few thousand men only—the crews of submarines, torpedo-boats, and planes. “The question of when Germany is going to strike can be answered thus —Germany has been striking daily and hourly for five weeks, since the French armistice. The method now being ttsed permits the use of a limited number of men only.” ARTILLERY BARRAGE REPORTED NAZI PROJECT. STRADDLING THE CHANNEL. NEW YORK. August 1. The “New York Times” says that the German Army has placed or is rapidly placing multiple lines of artillery to lay a barrage 75 miles wide from Boulogne to near Dunkirk, controlling the width of the Channel. CLAIM & FACTS ALLEGED CLOSING OF BRITISH PORTS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 31. An Italian wireless announcement which has been repeated from German stations that the “ports of London, Newcastle, and Southampton have been closed to commercial navigation” is described 'in authoritative quarters as ridiculous. The figures for entrances and clearing at British p0rt5—2,275,000 tons a week —given recently by the First Lord of the Admiralty provide a sufficient answer to the Italian and German claim, which continued: “Commerce is therefore completely paralysed find the Germans have achieved their aim.” It is remarked that if the German aim has been achieved it is curious that they continue their so far abortive and expensive endeavours to bomb convoys in the vicinity of Dover. .