1941-03-17 — Page 39

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 17, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

-WINDSOR HOUSE

HITLER'S WEAPONS

Nearly six

months

have passed since Adolf Hitler told a wildly cheer- ing crowd in Berlin's Sportpalast that an inva- sion of the British islands was imminent. "The peo- ple of England,” he said with scorn, "art very curious and ask: 'Why in the world don't your come? And his answer was: "We are coming."

He did his best to comic. On the day he spoke these words, an afternoon early last September, the Ger- man air force had just be- ¦ gun its series of furious daylight and day-long at- tacks on Britain al- tacks in which, according to Germany's own claims, as many as 2,000 'planes were used against a single objective. Those attacks were beaten back. The losses inflicted

on the German air force by the R.A.F. were so heavy that Hitler halted his daylight raids. Not since last September has he made another attack by day

with anything remotely like the numbers he then used.

A fortnight ago, Hitler spoke again to the Ger- man people. This time there was no prediction in his speech of an early in vasion of Britain. There was no repetition of his bitter joke at the expense of the

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The "Signals" Never Sleep

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