NAZI INVASION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1941, Page 5

NAZI INVASION

NEW STORY OF POSSIBLE PLAN. ITALIANS AS SUICIDE SQUADS. It is difficult to imagine Italian troops leading an attack against any well-cciuipped Army, let alone that of Britain standing on its own shores. It is suggested that they are to be deliberately used as “suicide squads" in the much-heralded invasion of Britain. This declaration is made by an American diplomat using the pseudonym “Henry Moore,” writing in the New York “Herald-Tribune.” The author, who, says the correspondent of the London “Daily Mail in New York, recently returned from Europe, says that wide preparations for an invasion have already been made, and adds: “In all the ports from Antwerp to Boulogne and down to Brest the Nazi troops told of! for the invasion are being concentrated. These include 200.000 Italians.

“The plan foresees landing operations of two kinds, one feinting, one actual. The men told off to make the feint are not expected to survive. Parachute landing will be effected parallel with landing from the sea. “Everything, including gas, will be used in this supreme gamble,” he says. “The Italians are expected to be the main fodder for the fish of the English Channel, the North Sea and the Bay of Biscay. Because the men taking part in the feinting operations are believed to be doomed, nine out of ten of them will be Italians.”