BRITAIN’S SEA MASTERY
SUCCESSES AGAINST SUBMARINES CUTTING OFF VITAL MATERIALS FROM ENEMY INCREASING EFFICIENCY OF CONVOY SYSTEM LONDON. September 13. (Received September 14, at noon.) Earl Stanhope, in the House of Lords, said three Polish destroyers had joined the British Fleet. Reconnaissance flights by British bombers had gathered much useful information regarding activities behind the German frontier. He added that the supply of Germany’s vital war materials carried under neutral flags “had been and will be increasingly limited by the contraband control imposed by the power of our fleet.” The British convoy system was operating with “ increased efficiency every day. When fully operating there is no reason to suppose it will be less decisive than 20 years ago. German submarines are being constantly attacked and successes have been achieved.”
Practically all the German shipping, totalling around 1,105,000 tons at the outbreak of war, was “ now cleared from the high seas. The losses of British merchant shipping were undoubtedly somewhat severe, but
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Evening Star, Issue 23371, 14 September 1939, Page 11
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161BRITAIN’S SEA MASTERY Evening Star, Issue 23371, 14 September 1939, Page 11
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