Referring to the war at sea, Mx, Chamberlain stated that a number of bright moonlit nights recently had enabled the hunting of submarines 10 bbe continued by day and by night. 'The air force, he said, had carried attacks on' the German fects, and Fame losses had been sustained. "The war" against the submarines was! making definite progress, "however, And no ships had been hit for a whole {eek Submarines were being driv Into distant waters, to the embarra ment of the German high command.
'A. more sinister development, continued, was the German declar tion that all merchantmen who. we farmed were to be regarded German cavy as washing IF this meant anything at all, it meant tha Germany had declared unrestricted submarine warfare, despite the fact that according to international 1a threatened -merchantmen were per mitted to carry defensive armament The appearance of a Greman raid the South Atlantic, he went on, Was being dealt with according to prearranged plans. "German claims of having damaged British warships. air voids over the North Sea we denied.
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