MARTINIQUE ISLAND
NOT USED AS ENEMY BASE
(Rec. noon.) WASHINGTON, February 25,
The Under-Secretary of State, Mr. Sumner Welles, denied reports that German submarines in the Caribbean Sea are using the French island of Martinique as an operating base. The United States, he said, maintained official observers at Martinique, as well as a naval base nearby, and United States air and naval patrols operated throughout the region.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1942, Page 8
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