NOT TO BE ABANDONED
MALTA AS NAVAL BASE MINISTER’S DEFINITE ASSURANCE (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. June 17. Invited, in the House of Commons at question time to make a statement regarding the future of the British naval base at Malta, Sir Samuel Hoare (First Lord of the Admiralty) said: “I am glad to have the opportunity of contradicting rumours which have received some publicity that .Malta is to bo abandoned as a naval base. The board of the Admiralty has no intention of discontinuing the use of Malta as the principal naval base in the Mediterranean and headquarters of the Mediterranean Fleet.”
To a supplementary question as to the security of the base, Sir Samuel Hoare replied: “I would never say I am fully satisfied with any defence position, but I would state categorically that, as we have no intention whatever of evacuating Malta, we shall certainly take every practicable means to make its defence adequate against possible attack.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22911, 19 June 1936, Page 13
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