GERMAN RAIDER
DEUTSCHLAND AT SEA.
[BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.]
(Received November 2, 11 a.m.) ' RUGBY, November 1.
Questioned in the ’ Commons 1 about reports that two German pocket-bat-tleships were in the Atlantic, raiding commerce, Mr. Churchill said that the evidence on all the’ circumstances of these raids was conflicting, but he confirmed the fact that one vessel of the type, namely, the Deutschland, had been abroad on the ocean.
Mr. Churchill, in reply to a further question as to whether adequate steps were being taken to prevent German submarines using the West Coast. Ports of Eire for refuelling, said: The responsibility for territorial waters rests with the Eire Government. Elsewhere. the Royal Navy is doing its best.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 November 1939, Page 7
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