HOUSE OF COMMONS
SECRET SESSION POSTPONED. NAVIES’ GLORIOUS TRADITION. Received April 11, 10.20 a.m. LONDON, April 10. The secret session of the House of Commons, fixed for to-morrow, has been cancelled. The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr Churchill) will make a statement in the House to-morrow.
The secret session of the French Senate was dramatically postponed alter the Premier (M. Reynaud) had declared that a great battle was proceeding in the North Sea. “1 am sure the Allied Navies are living up to their glorious tradition,” M Reynaud said. The French Premier said half the German Fleet had been exposed to units of the Allied Fleets. The German ships now bottled up iii Narvik emphasised the cutting-off of German supplies of iron ore —a capital advantage to the Allies. Not a ton would leave Narvik lor Germany for the duration of the war. The Allied blockade was being applied to-morrow to the regions which had submitted to German control.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 113, 11 April 1940, Page 7
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