“ALMOST DEFENCELESS”
SKA ROUTES FROM NX (Per Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, this day. “There is 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 an-d 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 far away,” stated Commander Gibb. “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 squadron from 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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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19980, 4 July 1939, Page 6
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