“There’s no getting away from it —we are for practical reasons almost completely defenceless,” said Commander Roger B. Gibb, R.N. (retired) in an address on sea warfare and its effect on New Zealand and its shipping, at a meeting organised by the Southland branch of the New Zealand Defence League. “At the best, Singapore and America are very very far away,” Commander Gibb continued. “The difficulties of moving the American Fleet over to our help are almost insuperable. An American attack upon Japan is equally difficult, and we cannot hope for more than a single battle squadion for Singapore. Everything then, seems to point to our doing all we can for ourselves. If we do not we shall continue in a defenceless state should war be declared.”
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4806, 5 July 1939, Page 2
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