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WATCH AGAINST INVASION IN BRITAIN HEAVY GUARDS ON CHANNEL COAST. CALM SEA BLANKETED IN FOG. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, December 26. Christmas brought perfect “invasion” weather in the Straits of Dover and the heavily armed guards lining the Channel coast were doubled against the possibility of a German thrust through the blanket of fog covering a calm sea. Picked troops armed with Bren guns and other automatic weapons patrolled the beaches and watched every cleft and fissure. Guards held up and searched coastal traffic at barricades and compelled drivers and passengers, whether civilian or military, to produce identity cards.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 December 1940, Page 6
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