USE OF SUBMARINES
ABOLITION AIM
UNSUCCESSFUL EFFORTS
(Received August 3, 11.30 a.m.) } LONDON, August 2. '
Replying in the House of Lords to a motion by Lord Mottistone that steps should be taken to abolish submarines, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Stanhope, said that the Government had not achieved a modicum of success in its efforts at abolition. Tha Admiralty felt that under ordinary conditions Avith present apparatus they, could hunt submarines and make certain of finding them. He believed that this knowledge had induced the cessation of submarine activity in the Mediterranean during the Spanish Avar when Britain threatened to take action.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1939, Page 9
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104USE OF SUBMARINES Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1939, Page 9
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