NORTH SEA TRADE
EVERY SHIP TO BE ARMED MR WINSTON CHURCHILL'S ANNOUNCEMENT. RESISTANCE TO MURDEROUS ATTACKS. By Telecrnph—Press Association—Copyright, ißeceived This Day. 12.25 p.m.) LONDON February 1-1. The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr Wilston Churchill), in the House of Commons, said that adequate steps were being taken to protect trawlers and fishing boats. He hoped that every vessel • trading in the North See. would be armed within six weeks. He added that they would not have expected attacks on small unarmed vessels in normal circumstances, but now ii appeared that every vessel must be effectively armed to resist rnu.-der-ous attacks.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 February 1940, Page 8
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