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WAR AT SEA

SPEECH BY FIRST LORD ENTRY ON DECiSIVE PHASE. EVERYTHING MUST BE THROWN IN (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) RUGBY, August 29. Speaking in Sheffield, Mr A. V. Alexander (First Lord of the Admiralty) said he had just come from a visit made, under service conditions, to units of the Fleet. He h?.d been at sea in a corvette and destroyer and had been on board the Prince of Wales. Mr Alexander added that fifteen months ago the Navy had had to face a task such as it had never had to face in its history. He spoke of the variety and deadliness of attacks made upon shipping lines and said British losses were fewer, while the Fleet grew stronger. That improvement had been fought for and won whilst maintaining military convoys to the Middle East of men and materials. Just as the results so far achieved were dependent on the output of ships, guns, planes, torpedoes and shells, so in the phase of the war which was now developing, the production of these essentials would be every whit as important, if not more so. The approaching phase of the war was going to be the decisive phase, for which we must strip to the waist. “When you are fighting for your life,” said Mr Alexander, “you have to throw everything in.”

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1941, Page 6

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WAR AT SEA Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1941, Page 6

WAR AT SEA Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1941, Page 6

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