PARALLEL ACTION

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 121, 17 February 1944, Page 6

PARALLEL ACTION

f Tighter Blockade Against Germany A, (British Official Wireless.) , . RUGBY, February 15. The Admiralty has declared nearly 200.000 square miles of sea m the Bay of Biscay region as “dangerous to snipping.”. the area covers the western approaches of the English Channel and .the whole of the Bay of Biscay, extena- - ing westward 400 miles into the Atlantic. It is understood that the new declara- ■ tion means a further intensification oL the anti-submarine campaign, but the activities of cargo-carrying vessels plying to French and Spanish ports will aiso be limited. , , The Secretary of the United States Navy Colonel Knox, said in Washington today’ that Britain and the United States were tightening their blockade against sea-borne transport of goods .to . Germany. Commenting on the Admiralty announcement, he said it was significant because “it is parallel to the action ' taken by the United States on this side to reduce to a minimum and eventually to eliminate the transportation of goods to Germany through France. Almost an the blockade runners use the Bay of Biscay. This action should halt any. attempt to smuggle goods from Spain, into France across the bay. All this indicates the tightening pressure of our blockade.”