The Archive · 1941

Small Ships Ordered To Carry Radios

London, Feb. 16.

The Admiralty yesterday ordered all British ships under 1,000 gross tons to be equipped with radios eap~ able of receiving British Broadcasting Company news bulletins.

The Admiralty also ordered a wireless watch to be maintained from.

'7am, to 1 pin, and from 6 pam. to 9 pin, British Standard Time.

'The' order was interpreted as an additional invasion precaution so that all ships at sea might be acquainted with the home siluation—United Press.

The oficial news agency, Agence Athéne, yesterday issued a statement denying reports abroad that Germany was ringing pressure on Greece to make peace with Italy.

The war with fought to the end, agency said—United Press, Attican Empire, the opening of a new Greek offensive in Albania and heavy alr blows against Rhodes. and Sicily, {wo of Italy's most important island bose in the eastern and central Me Whatever may be the sequel, it must bbe rated as one of the most thrilling the long list of audacious strokes curried out against Mussolini. who himself has given convincing proof of the concern it has occasioned him,

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