London, July 15, The reports that Great Mritain was contemplating transferring the Malta base to elsewhere in the Mediterranean were scotched today by the Earl of Plymouth, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, in a statement in the House of Lords Great Britain, he said, "had no! intention" whatever of evacuating Malta. On the contrary, she would take every practical means of making} Weg defences sur Lord Plymouth's declaration followed a statement by Baron Strick-and, formerly Prime Minister and Minister for Justice in Malta, who tion of the island was contemplated and steps for evacuation were actually commenced.
Lord Strickland said he recognized the situation had radically changed since then, and that Malta, if not absolutely impregnable, was now very nearly so—Reuter,
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