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Show and British coasts they struck the-oil the-oil and gasoline line. British planes rained incendiary bombs and in, a few minutes the water became a mass of fire enveloping the German barges. Only a few thousand Germans managed to escape, the remainder perished in the sea or were burned burn-ed to death. A similar fate befell. tne second expedition In September. Septem-ber. The Russian journalist says that people in occupied French ports estimate that 80,000 German troops perished in the two attempts and "the fact is that hospitals in occupied oc-cupied France are filled with Nazi soldiers, all of them suffering from severe burns." Thousands of dead washed ashore and "there was a wave of mutinies in the German army" when a third attempted at-tempted invasion was planned. German Invaders Burned at Sea There haveeTveral ..reports of German attempts to Invade. Great Britain and despite semiofficial semi-official denials the stories continue con-tinue to appear, with considerable Themost recent relates that the Germans attempted invasions to August and to September and tw both failed because the Brit- ish, using tanks of oil and gasoline gaso-line set on fire by ndlary bombs from airplanes, literally consumed the Invaders by fire. This time the narrative comes from Boris Nikolayevsky, described as a distinguished Russian publicist publi-cist and historian, who lived in France for many years before his arrival in this country last week. He is said to have had close contact con-tact with French officials and political po-litical leaders. His story is that the British, looking for an invasion, sowed the Channel with oil tanks anchored sufficiently. beneath the surface to be hidden from view. Parallel with these they anchored thousands of gasoline tanks and waited for the Germans. In August, with 1,200 specially constructed aluminum barges, each bearing about fifty soldiers and equipment, the Germans came. About half-way between the French |
