"Il Messagero" Comments On Rumoured Nazi Plans Rome, Nov. 12.
Italy is determined to remain neutral even if Germany should attack the Allies through Holland and Belgium, it was said here today. No tension, however, was resulting from the speeding up of Italy's efforts to establish a peace buttress in the Balkans by forming a neutral bloc among the Balkan nations.
The Rome newspaper "Il Messaggoro," in a report dated from The Hague said, "The German attack against Holland will begin on Noy-ember 15, following a violent press campaign and aff offer of protection to Holland itself. At the same time Germany will begin an offensive on the West Front. The German General Staff counts on being able to occupy within 48 hours Dutch ports on the North Sea for the purpose of marching on Rotterdam. Thus the Dutch ports will become sub-bases for operating in the English Channel,"—United Press, Nazi Press Hints of Invading England Berlin, Nov. 12.
In the first Nazi press hint of an invasion of the British Isles, The "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" yesterday said here is "no divine law that the island of chosen People' should always be immune from entrance by an'énemy. The plan at Which experts have often mildly sneered may change with surprising suddenness. The future will show whether the island, largely denuded of fighting forces, is still unassailable. A war is not won by the application of rigid traditional rules, but with Courage and imagination. If England forces us to fight a. war to the last, she, for the first time after isolation
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