FIRST AUTUMN GALE
IN STRAITS OF DOVER EFFECT ON HITLER'S PLANS BRITISH TROOPS DISAPPOINTED (omcial Wireless) (Received Sept. 18, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 17 According to agency messages the first autumn gale was blowing in the Straits of Dover today. During the night a south-westerly wind reached gale force, big seas were running and pounding the beaches, and the weather conditions generally were bad. This break in the weather producing conditions unfavourable to an attempt at an invasion by the Germans, is reported to have caused keen disappointment among the British troops on the coast, who are eagerly awaiting for the battle to begin.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21221, 18 September 1940, Page 7
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104FIRST AUTUMN GALE Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21221, 18 September 1940, Page 7
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