ARMING OF SHIPS.
UNITED STATES NAVY READY. WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. “The United States Navy is ready to put guns and gun crews on merchantmen as fast as the. ships come to us, and as soon as Congress authorises such action,” said the Secretary for the Navy (Colonel Knox) at a press conference. He added that plans were under way for a Navy censorship of outgoing overseas communications to prevent leakage of military, naval and economic information to the enemy or unfriendly powers. He said the Navy was keeping the Greenland region unaer surveillance. The captured radio group was well-equipped and had provisions sufficient for at least one winter in Greenland. Revealing that there had been no interruption in the movement of American oil to Vladivostok Colonel Knox said that the Japanese Navy had long been regarded in' America as more moderate than the Army. It was less provincial perhaps because it saw, more ol the world and what other nations were doing. i
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 5, 17 October 1941, Page 5
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