Türning to the several war theatres, the Prime Minister stated that patrolling and fire had continued on the Western Front, and the British troops in their sector of the Maginot Line had taken their full share in these activities.
During the last month, he continued, air activity had been hampered by short daylight, high winds, frost, fog, and snow-covered landing grounds. British air forces had nonetheless been continuously in action, in particular over the whole battle area of the North Sea.
Every week, considerable bomber forces had swept Heligoland Bight and the approaches to the Baltic in search of such units of the German Fleet as might venture to put' sea. Reconnaissance had been regularly maintained deep into German territory, in part by aircraft based on Great Britain and in part by those of the British Air Force in France. This long-distance reconnaissauce had now been extended to Eastern Germany, Austria and Bohemia, Nazi Mine Menace Controlled is made it desirable that a should occur at some time the change could be TH when I had to make at the same time in
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After sympathetic reference to the loss of British trawlers and the submarines Starfish and Undine and the gallantry of their crews, Mr. Chamberlain spoke of the success attending the measures taken to meet the indiscriminate and unnotified mine-sowing which had followed the failure of the German U-boat campaign.
The latest threat, he informed the House, was already coming under control, and the Government had every confidence in being able at present to defeat it.
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