MALTA NAVAL BASE
O No Abandonment By Britain
STRONGER DEFENCES
■British Official Wireless.) Rugby, June 17.
Invited at question time in the House of Commons to make a statement regarding the future of the British naval base at Malta, the First Lord of the Admiraltv, Sir Samuel Hoare, said:— “I am glad of an opportunity of contradicting rumours which have received some publicity that Malta is to be abandoned as a naval base. The Board of the Admiralty has no intention of discontinuing the use of Malta as the principal naval base in the Mediterranean and tiie headquarters of the Mediterranean Fleet.”
To a supplementary question as to the security of the base, Sir Samuel replied: “I would never say I was fully satisfied with any defence position, but I wo/ld state categorically that as we have no intention whatever of evacuating Malta we shall certain!; take every practicable means to make its defence adequate for possible attack.”
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 225, 19 June 1936, Page 11
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158MALTA NAVAL BASE Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 225, 19 June 1936, Page 11
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