WAR ON SUBMARINES
POWERS’ NEW ORDERS PIRATES TO BE SUNK ESTABLISHING IDENTITY (Eloc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Feb. 4, 3.30 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 3. A French Foreign Office communique discloses 'an order to warships to attack, an.d, if possible, sink all submarines ea'st of Point Bee de l’Aigle, near Ceuta. This resulted In a conference between the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, aricT the French and Italian Ambassadors. The Daily Telegraph’s diplomatic correspondent says that it is now established that British or French patrols encountering any submarine will do their best to destroy it and also that when a ship is sunk in future and the identity of the culprit established, tire Nyon committee will authorise the confiscation of property belonging to the offending State to the full value ol the damage inflicted. The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, in the House of Commons, said that the Mediterranean patrol had not detected the presence of any pirate submarine outside of territorial waters since the date of the Nyon agreement. Authoritative circles in Rome state that there is no excitement over the sinking of the Endymion, such incidents being either imaginary or traceable to Red sources.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19551, 5 February 1938, Page 9
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197WAR ON SUBMARINES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19551, 5 February 1938, Page 9
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