PROTECTION OF SHIPS
AGAINST SUBMARINES. BRITISH INSTRUCTIONS. COUNTER-ATTACK ALLOWABLE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received August 18, 11.18 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 17.
After a meeting of Ministers at the Foreign Office in London a statement was issued that the British Government has been seriously perturbed at the increasing number of attacks upon shipping which have occurred of late in the Mediterranean and at the extension of the area in which these incidents arc now taking place. The British Government has issued instructions through the Admiralty that if any British merchant ship is attacked by a submarine without warning His ivla.jesty’s ships are authorised to counterattack the submarine. ,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 221, 18 August 1937, Page 9
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110PROTECTION OF SHIPS Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 221, 18 August 1937, Page 9
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