MIGHTY TASK
PERFORMED BY NAVAL VOLUNTEERS
DESTRUCTION OF MINES ROUND BRITAIN.
FIRST LORD’S TRIBUTE
(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) RUGBY, September 15
Speaking at Portsmouth, the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr A. V. Alexander) disclosed that more magnetic, acoustic and buoyed mines had been destroyed around the coast of Britain 1 than would have been sufficient to destroy the whole British mercantile marine. This had been achieved largely by men joining the Navy from the fishermen’s ranks and from civil life. Mr Alexander said he had been 100k r ing through the records of the coastal forces in the Channel, and found that, of hundreds of officers in the coastal forces, not more than two per cent were officers of the old “pukka Navy.”
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19420916.2.10
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 September 1942, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
128MIGHTY TASK Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 September 1942, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in