HUNTING SUBMARINES
BRITISH ADMIRALTY (Reed. Aug. 3, 2.40 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 2. Replying in the House of Lords to Lord Mott is tone, who proposed that steps should be taken to abolish submarines, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Earl Stanhope, said that the Government had not achieved a modicum of success in its efforts for such abolition. The Admiralty felt that under ordinary conditions with the present apparatus we could hunt submarines and make certain of finding them. It is believed that this knowledge induced a cessation of. submarine activities in the Mediterranean during the Spanish civil war when Britain threatened to take action
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20007, 4 August 1939, Page 11
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105HUNTING SUBMARINES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20007, 4 August 1939, Page 11
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