BATTLE OF ATLANTIC.
O AMERICAN AID TO BRITAIN. ii . ' NEW YORK, August 4. One of the major reasons for the United States occupation of Iceland ■was the great aid that this would give .Britain in combating the U-boat menace. The weakest spot in the British defences is in the waters off the French coast .along the Bay of Biscay, where the Nazis have established a number of submarine bases, states the New York “Daily Mirror.” Because of -.the enormous depth of these waters It is impossible to lay anchored minefields too prevent submarines getting to the Atlantic, and the only alternais constant naval and air patrol, " but Britain lacked sufficient destroyers - for, the job. Since the United States occupation of Iceland, plus a patrol between Nova Scotia and Iceland, Brit - ain has been enabled to divert sufficient war vessels and aeroplanes to police the Bay of Biscay.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 252, 6 August 1941, Page 8
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