"French patrol zones were soon extended and today, British and French zones" the Information Ministry said, "are largely interlocked, permitting both countries' patrols to operate.on a very closely concerted plan to maintain mastery over the seas.
"Many convoys are protected entirely by the-French Navy and others are under Frènch protection for part of their voyage while still others are protected by units of both navies.
"The French Navy is also playing an important part in tracking down the German pirate ships. Its composition adapts it particularly well to pursuit, patrol and convoy duties in ce-operation with the Royal Navy. French light cruisers are very speedy, exceptionally powerful and possess excellent sea-going qualities which give them a value impossible to overestimate.
"Collaboration between our two navies in exercising control over seas is constantly revised' and the French Navy may yet render more efficacious service in assuring Allied mastery and in replying suitably to the German campaign against merchant ships.
"The spirit of friendship and emulation that exists in the two Allied navies is yielding the best of results," the Information Ministry's communique concluded—Havas.
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