PROTECTION OF TRADE ROUTES
Measure Found For Submarines
MINISTER SPEAKS OF SURPRISE
MR OLIVER STANLEY GIVES WARNING
(United Press .Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Independent Cable Service)
(Received April 1, 12.5 a.m.) LONDON, March 31.
The Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, Admiral-of-the-Fleet Lord Chatfield, speaking before the Chamber of Shipping, outlined the steps taken to ensure the British trade routes being open in wartime. He said that Britain had already found a measure for sub-
marines, but until war came he could not tell if the measures against air attack were adequate. “We have a surprise for those who expect to inflict , a vital blow on our arteries,” said Lord Chatfield. The President of the Board of Trade (the Hon. Oliver Stanley) warned Powers who thought that Britain was decadent.
“If the call comes we will answer it, not with the shouts and clamour of a facile mob, easily aroused and easily dissolved, but with conviction, ‘hope and anger which will last to the end,” he said. , The Duke of Kent said that the shipping industry would get renewed confidence for the future from the Government’s new measures of assistance.
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Southland Times, Issue 23782, 1 April 1939, Page 7
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