SIR ROGER KEYES
AN INTERVIEW STATEMENT STRENGTH OF LARGE WARSHIPS. ABLE TO WITHSTAND ATTACK BY AIR. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY. April 17. Interviewed by an Italian journalist, Admiral Sir Roger Keyes said that occupation of Narvik by the British was not merely very important from a military viewpoint, but also because it meant a complete cessation of the transport of vital ore supplies to Germany from that port. Recent actions between ships and aeroplanes had proved conclusively, Sir R. Keyes stated, that the big units of the fleet have nothing to fear against even the largest bombers. He said: “I can assure you, in the most emphatic way, that H.M.S. Rodney has not suffered at all through a huge bomb which hit her. The ship is in perfect navigating condition and this shows that she will defy any menace from the air.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1940, Page 5
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