NAVY'S BIG TASK
LANDING OF ALLIED TROOPS
RUGBY, July 9. Tasks still facing the Royal Navy were outlined by Lord Winster in a broadcast. First and foremost was protection of shipping. ! "We are all waiting," he said, "in a I state of high tension, though not such high tension as the enemy's, to know where our next blow is going to fall. Wherever it may be, the Merchant Navy has got to carry to the appointed spot the forces which are going to deliver it. Omens are good. There has been a favourable swing in the Battle of the Atlantic. In fact, the im-prov-nrent. entitles us to regard it as a major victory."
Germany still had some formidable surface warships, he added, but the German navy was fighting the merchant navy, not the Royal Navy. Bi'itain had to maintain big ships in northern waters to make sure that big German ships did not come out to attack merchant routes. The Admfral expressed his opinion that there was no need to worry about the Italian navy.
The Admiralty has announced the promotion of the following captains to be rear-admirals:—J. W. Rivett-Car-nac, J. W. A. Waller, R. H. Portal, G. R. Archer, J. A. V. Morse, H. R. G. Kinahan, A. G. Talbot, R. S. G. Nicholson, and G E. Creasy.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 9, 10 July 1943, Page 5
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