1940-09-21 — Page 7

Second Section

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1940.

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THE INVASION OF BRITAIN

THE American magazine Life, from which the illustrations on this page are reproduced, thus sums up Hitler's in- vasion chances: Between the Nazi military machine and world domination still stand an island and a fleet. Cried the commander of that island, Britain's Prime Minister Winston ""The Battle of France is over. Churchill a few months ago:

Hitler knows he will have to The Battle of Britain is about to begin.

If we can stand up to him, break us in this island or lose the war.

all Europe may be freed. But if we fail, the whole world, un iuding the U.S. and all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss These were the words of a desperate and resolute of a new dark age

people

The preliminaries of the Battle of Britain have already begun German air raida in ever-increasing force and ferocity are testing out

(Several thousand civilians have bee the English defence system. killed to date).

How the Nazis propose to go on and try to take England is shown on this page.

Their success is strategically possible but it may be talked by the facts that an over-water invasion against a strong sea power is tactically almost impossible and that once aroused, the English peuple are tradi- tionally tough fighters. The English hold the open sea but they connol hold the narrow waters of the English Channel. They therefore have an active "front" of about 60 miles long the south-east coast duminutes by German artillery and planes.

England's soldier defenders, including Empire troops, total 1.300,- 000 of whom 250,000 have already drawn German blood and felt the impact of the Nazi Army in Flanders. In addition there are 500,000 half-armed civilian defence volunteers, 1,250,000 Air Raid Preroutions volunteers, 2,000 first-aid posts, 100,000 ambulances, 300,000 hospital beds, bomb shelters for 90,000,000.

Above all, there are the 300,000 men of Royal Air Force, actually the real shield of England, if they can keep their bombers and fighters in the air.

Slace Flanders Britain and its people have been working feverish- ly night and day to perfect an adequate defence against the dreaded All road signs, hotel, railroad and store names, Gennan Invasion. church notices, that might give away locations to a German invader have been removed, Englishmen have been told to give the Germans no information, to send up rockets where a parachutist lands, to "shoot them, shoot them, shoot them," in disable all cars standing idle, to ring church bells only to warn of parachutists, "to make your garden a fort," to keep off the beaches, to ignore rumours, to hide maps, bicycles, food and gusoline and to "work like hell."

Nazi Invasion

These pictures show LIFE'S views of the way would operate.

Above is a map of the routes the invaders would probably take Not shown-there are too many and the obstuctes they would meal.

are the ships of the Royal Navy and the planes of the Royal Air Force which would be slashing at the invasion lines, demoralising the attack

Af the right is one of the devices Germany may use the tank- carrying plore Russia has already transported light tanks slung below the undercarriage of big bumbers. Such tanks would be useful against infantry but could not fight their way through heavy obstacles. Below are the two methods which Germany would probably use s1 intensely.

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Parachute troops landing un an airport which had been heavily allacked would try to win an initial foothold for their airborne re- inforcernents.

fieavier tanks would be rushed across on great barges, be protected by guns and planes, supported by infantry.

But, as LiFE points out, these pictures don't show the Royal Navy.

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