TRADE RAIDERS
ACTIVITIES AN ANNOYANCE.
NO LASTING EFFECT ON WAR.
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 27.
Naval experts, commenting on the German Admiral Lutzow’s claim that the mines recently found off the coast of South Africa were laid by a commerce raider, while dismissing a further claim that eight ships and two mine-sweepers, have been lost in this area as being totally untrue, agree that the actions of commerce raiders either by mine-laying, torpedo, bomb or gunfire can cause considerable annoyance and inconvenience, but can have no lasting effect on the conduct of the war.
The issue of the present war, they state, will depend on supplies of raw material, and the Power that controls the trade routes will win in the end. Many campaigns have been won and lost at a scene many hundreds of miles from the battle area.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1940, Page 5
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141TRADE RAIDERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1940, Page 5
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