BRITISH INDIGNATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 55, 2 September 1937, Page 9

BRITISH INDIGNATION

GRAVEST VIEW TAKEN

18 ATTACKS IN A MONTH

(British omclal : W.irelcßa.)

(Received September 2, 11.20 a.m.) RUGBY, September 1. The news o£ the -submarine attack on the British destroyer Havock has, again focused attention on the series of lawless raids by sea and air on shipping in the Mediterranean. , Newspapers assert that the attacks number 18 since the, beginning of August. ■•,■■'•,..■ ' , The ships have been bombed, .torpedoed, and fired upon without warning, and usually in the dark, by aircraft, submarines,' and surface craft of nationality undetermined. No steps have been.taken for the, safety of the crews of vessels attacked in defiance of the dictates1 of humanity and the laws of war. . ..

There is growing indignation in Britain at these outrages, the authorship of which is becoming a subject of increasingly widespread speculation.

This evening the Admiralty made the following announcement: —"It has proved impossible to ascertain whether the counter-attack by the Havock was successful. No submarine which could be identified with the Havock's assailant has since been discovered. Apart from the foregoing it is most unlikely that any further information will be available." ■

■' Hitherto there has been no attack by a submarine upon a British warship, and the very gravest view 'of the incident in which the Havock was involved is taken.in .official quarters.