INVASION PLANS

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21372, 17 March 1941, Page 5

INVASION PLANS

! BATTLE FOR BRITAIN i PLANS BEING MADE ADVICE TO RESIDENTS (United Press Assn.—Eiec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, March 16 Church bells will not be rung throughout the country as a general warning of an invasion of Britain, but will be rung locally as a warning to garrisons of troops seen landing from the air in the neighbourhood. Everybody is entitled to protect himself from an attack by small parties in an area not under enemy ; control. These instructions are among many contained in a pamphlet | shortly to be distributed. It will be j accompanied by an important mes- ] sage from Mr Churchill. j The Ministry of Information, in I a preliminary outline of the pam- 1 phlet, again emphsises the advice to citizens to stay where they are and leave the roads clear for military movements. It also advises citizens ; against assuming enemy control of 1 a neighbourhood because they see an enemy tank or some enemy soldiers who may be advanced troops or stragglers who tan easily be rounded up. It suggests that householders ■ should have a trench ready in the garden or a field for protection if their house should be damaged in battle. Careful plans have been drawn up to enable newspapers to 1 carry on. FAMILIES WIPED OUT NAZI RAIDS ON BRITAIN WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED (United Press Assn. —Elec. fel. Copyright) LONDON, March 16 A few raiders bombed several London districts on Saturday night, but the damage was small and casualties were not heavy. Heavy bombs hit a Thames Estuary town, wrecking two houses, damaging many others and burying residents under debris, killing one man and severely injuring two others. Four of one family—father, mother and two sons—were killed on Friday night when a heavy bomb fell in a street of workers’ homes in a northeast coast town. A stick of bombs straddled a row of workers’ houses in a south coast town and killed four fire-watchers, a mother, her daughter and grandchild, and also a mother and three children. Ten persons were killed when bombs struck houses in a North Midlands village. Many people are homeless as the result of the raid on Liverpool, which lasted as long as those of the previous two nights. POLITICAL REFUGEES HANDED OVER BY FRANCE (United Press Assn.— £lec. Tel. Copy rig'll t) (Received March 17, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, March 16 Von Thyssen, formerly a financial magnate in Germany who was forced to flee owing to his opposition to Nazism, is among a group of wellknown political refugees living in the South of France whom the Vichy authorities are reported to have handed over to the Germans recently under the armistice terms. SWISS PREPARING RESERVISTS CALLED UP DEFENCE OF NEUTRALITY (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received March 17, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, March 16 The Swiss radio announced that the Government has called up an unspecified number of reservists. It is officially stated that the purpose is to safeguard neutrality, in view of forthcoming developments in the war, though it is not expected to be threatened. STUDY BY PROFESSOR MALNUTRITION IN FRANCE (United Press Assn.--Elec. Tel. copyright) (Received March 17, 11.45 a.m.) VICHY, March 16 Professor Alexis Carrel, collaborator with Colonel Lindbergh in robot heart research, has arrived to study the results of malnutrition among workers, women and children.