Foreign News: Submerged Submarines

Last week two British freighters were sunk by “pirate craft” in Spanish waters. This week it was reported in Paris that something like a “blockade” of Italian submarine bases in the Balearics was contemplated by the British and French navies. More substantial was the announcement by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to a cheering House of Commons that “His Majesty’s Government will not tolerate that submarines be submerged in the patrol zones” and that submerged submarines would be attacked on sight.