FEARS OF INVASION
BETRAYED BY GERMANS VIGIL ON THE CHANNEL COAST. FORCES IN WESTERN EUROPE MUCH REDUCED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, September 18. Indicating that the Germans fear an invasion of France, a Berlin .military spokesman, in a broadcast Jast night, assured the public that the Channel coast was crowded with guns and that a ceaseless vigil was being kept as a guard against landing attempts. It is reliably learned in Germany that no more than 25 divisions, mainly second-line infantry, are in France, Belgium and Holland. It is believed that there is not a single fully-arm-oured division in all Western Europe. The "News Chronicle’s" military correspondent says it is not lack of trained and equipped troops which is holding back a British invasion of Western Europe, but inability to divert sufficient shipping and simultaneously io keep open supply routes to the Middle East and Russia and from America. However many quarters believe the advantages of large-scale, in and out raids would outweight the temporary diminuation in the supply of shipping.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 September 1941, Page 6
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176FEARS OF INVASION Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 September 1941, Page 6
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