WARFARE AT SEA
THE ARMING OF TRAWLERS CONSTRUCTION OF MERCANTILE TONNAGE. ALL YARDS FULLY ENGAGED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, February 26. Replying in the House of Commons to a question. Mr Winston Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty) stated that all yards available for the construction of mercantile vessels were fully engaged. The first need was to increase the output speed of these yards, and when this had been achieved the opening of new yards would follow. The Government, he added, was resolved to use the utmost capacity labour and steel would sustain. Asked whether, having regard to the fact that the Government had sent a thousand machine-guns to Finland, the First Lord could account for the delay in providing machine-guns for trawlers and coasting vessels trading in the North Sea, Mr Churchill replied: "The defensive arming of trawlers and coasting vessels trading in the North Sea is proceeding with all speed. The weapons that have been supplied to Finland are not so suitable for the antiaircraft defence of our shipping as those that are being fitted in our trawlers and coasting vessels, but to a certain extent we must share risks with others.''
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1940, Page 5
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