‘LATEST ABOMINATION.’
BRITAIN NOT DISMAYED.* :: CONFIDENCE IN SUCCESS. (Received.. This Day, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, November 23. Reference, to Germany’s policy of mine-laying:was made in a broadcast speech last night by the Chancellor of • the Exchequer (Sir John Simon). Ho said: “You have bden re lading in your newspapers of .this latest abomination of German savagery—a magnetic mine secretly deposited in channels of the sea in'order to blow up without warning neutral and Britishi shipping alike and to destroy the innocent lives of women and. children and unarmed men. This is; a. breach of the rules of war which Germany only two months ago had expressly promised to obey. “By this .ruthless brutality the .. enemy hopes ,to sap the strength of our island fortress and to cut off out supplies. Meanwhile the bravo crews of our minesweepers are risking danger for their country’s sake, our incomparable Navy is on the watch, the Air Force ceaseless vigil, the mercantile continues its perpetual service, and "all that skill and science can devise is devoted to meeting tin? pew danger. We are confident that their efforts will be successful.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 38, 24 November 1939, Page 5
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