London, Sept. 13.
The Mediterranean anti-piracy plan is welcomed in the morning papers as a practical measure to deal with the submarine menace. Tribute is also paid to the expeditious manner in which the agreement was reached at Nyon.
While hope is freely expressed that Italy will decide to collaborate in the work of patrol, "The Times" says that the Conference has confounded its critics, both by. the rapidity with which it has reached an agreement, and by the practical nature of the scheme adopted.
The British and French naval advisers, the newspaper points out, have produced a scheme which is likely to prove a serious deterrent to further outrages against neutral shipping on the two great trade routes in the Mediterranean.
The vigour displayed. by the British delegation at Nyon, the new: eker Mediterranean states are to be praised.
"Daily Telegraph" declares that it is hard to believe that an objection can be raised by any government to the naval action defined in the Agreement, Mystery Craft Fired On And Believed Sunk Gibraltar, Sept. 12.
An unknown submarine, sighted off Cartagena to-day, was fired on by the Cartagena shore batteries while motor launches rushed up and dropped depth-charges, according to a message from Valencia. Oil was afterwards seen on the surface, the message added, and it is generally believed that the submarine was sunk. The report could not be confirmed in Gibraltar.—Reuter.
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