NAVY'S GREAT TASK
Service Conditions Hardest
In History
DECISIVE THASE TO COME British omcial Wireless. Rec. 1.30 p.m. RUGBY, Aug. 29. Speaking at Sheffield. Mr. A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, said that he had just come from a visit made under service conditions to units of the Fleet. He had been at sea in a corvette and a destroyer and had been on board the Prince of Wales. Mr. Alexander added that 15 months ago the navy had to face a task such as it never had to face in history. In spite of the variety and deadliness of the attacks made upon shipping lines. British losses were fewer, while the fleet grew stronger.
That improvement had been fought for and won whilst maintaining the military convoys to the Middle East of men and materials. Just as the results so far achieved are dependent on the output of ships, guns, planes, torpedoes and shells, so in the phase of the war which was now developing the production of these essentials will be every whit as important, if not more so.
The approaching phase of the war is going to be the decisive phase for which we must strip to the waist. When you are fighting for your life you have to throw everything in.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 205, 30 August 1941, Page 7
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