INVASION PRACTICE
GERMANY’S HEAVY LOSS THOUSANDS OF BODIES WASHED UP ON FRENCH COAST (United Press Ann.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) NEW YORK, September 20 The vice-president of the Armco International Corporation, Mr Robert Solberg, on returning from France, declared that the Germans have not attempted the invasion of Britain, but there have been heavy losses of life from manoeuvres in the Channel preparatory thereto. Barges were sent two miles seaward, returning for practice landings on the French coast. British planes and submarines, aware of the plan, awaited the barges and thousands of Germans have been lost.
Mr Solberg was recently at a French port where the bodies of Germans were washed up daily.
A Dutch Lieutenant, Carl Ter Weele, said there were many German invasion exercises off the Netherlands coast and many men have been lost as a result of advance information reaching the British. Some men refused to take part in the exercises and were sent back to Germany with their hands tied.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21225, 23 September 1940, Page 7
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162INVASION PRACTICE Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21225, 23 September 1940, Page 7
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