TOPICS OF THE DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21190, 13 August 1940, Page 4

TOPICS OF THE DAY

Plan to Invade Britain Professor Banse, whom Hitler appointed professor of military science at Brunswick Technical College in 1933, has a plan for the invasion of Britain. His scheme is as follows: (1) He would land in Norfolk and Suffolk, and occupy the broad East Anglian peninsula protected on the flanks by the Wash and the estuary of the Thames. (2) He could invade and occupy Kent and Sussex, thus threatening the capital. (“In case of doubt, the occupation of East Anglia is the preferable plan.”) Though the double attack would lend itself to an enveloping movement which would encircle London and press on to the industrial Midlands, the first would be sufficient, since it could directly threaten both London and the key industrial areas in the Midlands and the North. At this point Ireland comes into the picture. Whilst the German army from East Anglia was advancing on the Midlands, a secondary attack from Dublin on Liverpool or Wales would take the defenders in rear, and England would be “gripped as in a forceps from the West and the South-East.” Banse is less specific about the crossing of the Channel, though the occupation of the Channel ports is part of the scheme.