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Show INVASION WAS TRIED BY NAZIS LAST YEAR There has been much discussion of various reports that the Germans Ger-mans attempted an invasion of the British Isles in September, 1940. Repeated references have been made to the number of German casualties, located in French hospitals, hos-pitals, suffering from serious burns, reputed to have been sustained sus-tained when the British sprayed oil over the expedition and set it on fire. The story has been specifically denied by responsible British officials offi-cials who stated that when a German Ger-man invasion is repulsed the British Bri-tish will be more than glad to let the world hear about their success. These denials, however, do not entirely en-tirely dispose of the rumor. Recently, Robert J. Casey, war correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, published a book telling of his experiences on the battlefronts of the present war. Mr. Casey, who was in Dover last September, says that Hitler did try an invasion. He says he saw the flames of the invasion in-vasion barges and the docks on the French coast that were destroyed by the R. A. F., which smashed the Nazis' jumping-off places. His report is interesting but we do not see where it proves that there was a serious attempt at Invasion. In-vasion. Everybody knows that the R. A. F. has been battering the "jumping-off" places for months but the fact that British bombs hit docks in France hardly proves that an actual invasion was, or is, underway. |