Evening star., 1944-04-30
Nazis Report Allies
Already Using Flyers
Trained for Invasion
Rumors Rife in Europe
And All Agree Time
For Landings Is Close
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, April 29-The Allied
war of nerves today kept Ger
many tensely expectant of mo-
mentary landings on the con-
tinent and Berlin itself said "the
invasion airforce is now actually
in the fight"
Thus, for all practical purposes,
Berlin said the invasion began a
week ago, when the Americans and
British hurled great numbers of re-
serve air crews and planes into the
bombing of the continent.
Perhaps illustrative of the shat
tered state of Europe's nerves-in
neutral nations as we'll as occupied
countries and Germany itself-was
one rumor out of Finland that the
land assault was already in progress.
The Helsinki newspaper Sanomat
said landings probably are in prog
ress at several places now" 1t did
not say where it obtained it's in
formation, which many hours after
ward was without the slightest
SubStantiation.
Allied Airmen Quoted.
Berlin quoted Allied airmen, now
prisoners, as saying they had trained
years for the invasion, had been
held in reserve, and until a week
ago had never taken part in
ordinary raids over Europe, and
stated:
They regard themselves as in
vasion troops, and the invasion be-
gan for them when they were sent
into action"
The Berlin dispatches said most
of the prisoners do not believe the
invasion will come across the chan
mel or against the Atlantic wall, but
against the French Mediterranean
coast"
A sample of the crop of rumors
holding that the Balkans would be
the invasion scene was a Tass dis
patch from Istanbul quoting Bucha-
rest sources as saying Romania S
Black Sea coast had been pro-
claimed forbidden zone.
All Agree Time Is Close.
All the entries in this greatest
guessing game of all time had one
common theme-the time is close.
The war is quickly approaching
its dramatic climax" Berlin diplo-
matte correspondent declared. No
body will doubt this, no matter
which belligerent party one may be
siding with and what personal atti-
tude one may have towards the
event"
1t was clear the Nazis were get
ting a double dose of the nerve war
tactics they once used SO effectively
German diSquiet was reflected in
the Stuttgart newspaper, National
Socialist Kurier, which chided Ger
man workers for criticizing Adolf
Hitler's military strategy and for
grumbling that the British and
Americans might oVerrun the coun-
try.
Jutland Reported AIerted.
/ For their part, London papers
featured a report that standby or
derS had been issued to the German
garrison holding Denmarks Jutland
but an Associated Press dispatch
from Stockholm said the garrison
had been under such orders since
Field Marshal Erwin Rommels in
Spectlon earlier in the year.
4 All prominent citizens in the Dan
lSh town of Esbjerg, on the West
Coast OF Jutland, have been arrested
by the GeStapO in the German pre-
invasion drive to stamp out patriot
resistance in Denmark, the Free
Danish press service reported from
Stockholm.
1t also said members of the
Schalburg Corps danish Nazis)
had blown up two plants as provo
cations on which Germans could pin
new restrictive measures in Den
mark. Schalburg men repeatedly
sabotaged a Copenhagen oil factory
and a glass plant In Korsoer.
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