The Prime Minister then gave figures of enemy attacks from the air on unarmed and unescorted traw-In December, 32 attacks of this nature were made, and took the form of bombing and machine-gunning of crews. Six trawlers were sunk and four damaged. Twenty-two escaped undamaged. During. the present month, there had been nó less than thirteen similar attacks from the air on trawlers. Two of these were sunk.
Mr. Chamberlain devoted the latter part of his statement to more recent examples of the important part being taken by the Dominions and Colonies in the war, mentioning the naval action of H.M.S. Achilles (of the New Zealand Division; in the battle against the Admiral. Graf Spee off the Rio de la Plata on December 13), the arrival of two contingents of the Canadian Active Service Force, and ihe development of the Empire air training scheme. A certain number of Indian troops, mainly companies of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps and Royal Indian Army Veter-mary Corps, had taken their place in the Expeditionary Forces in France,—Reuter.
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