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Training Planned – 2-3
Nazis Seek to Revive Industry of France – 3
The International Situation – 3
Wide Areas Raided – 4
British at Trinidad Fired at U.S. Vessel – 4
Burma Road Curb Pledged by Britain to Appease Japan – 5
New Sea Victory Claimed by Italy – 6
British Communist Paper Warned of Suppression – 6
Engine Bottleneck Slows Planes for Britain; 70 to 100 Held Up at Curtiss Buffalo Plant * – 7
Starvation Held Facing 35 Million – 8
War Ship Loss Put at 4,329,213 Tons – 8
Era of Mutual Aid Now Seen as Dead (by Lansing Warren) – 9
French in London Bar Bastille Day Mourning – 9
A Huge British Transport Sent to the Bottom off Norway (photo) – 10
Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 11

* Remember “Marlboro Man,” from the war in Iraq? Here’s a photo of the Wehrmacht version.

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/jul40/f13jul40.htm

Italians invade Kenya

Saturday, July 13, 1940 www.onwar.com

In East Africa... The Italian forces in Abyssinia move over the border into Kenya to attack the small town of Moyale.

From Berlin... Hitler issues Directive 15 on the air war with Britain. The offensive is to begin at full strength on August 5th. Goring in fact will not be able to have his planes ready by this date. This lack of efficiency will waste vital days in the fine summer weather. The RAF is to be rapidly driven from the skies and the air supremacy necessary if an invasion is to be attempted is to be achieved. Also, in a conversation with some of his generals Hitler makes his first real mention of the future necessity to attack the Soviet Union. He suggests that England is only fighting on because of the hope of Soviet help.