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was sowing mines in British Chan
mel. but asserted she had the right
to do so If she desired.
British naval sources expressed
the belief the reprisal would be more
effective than in the World War be-
cause. they said, of Germany's need
for cash and foreign credits.
Britain was expected to explain,
during the brief delay in making
the blockade effective, that she was
anxious to avoid penaliZing neutral
trade while trying to punish the
Reich. There were indications the
blockade would not be rigidly en-
forced where grave hardship on
neutral countries would result.
France announced officially No.
vember % that she had decided to
take similar measures to cut off
German exports.
Two hundred additional trawlers
have volunteered for mine-sweeping
duty, it was disclosed, in reply to
Britain's appeal for aid.
Six neutrals with large shipping
interests-Holland, Denmark, Bel
GUM, Sweden. Italy and Japan
have made advance representations
against the decision announced by
Prime Minister Chamberlain to
subject to seizure on the high
seas" all exports of German origin
or ownership" whether carried in
Nazi ships or under neutral flags.
Mine Secret Declared Known. :
New shipping losses were reported
after Mr. Chamberlain, in a broad
cast to the empire and the United
States last night, declared none of
these losses affects our overwhelm-
ing naval superiority" and said that
already we know the secrets of the
magnetic mine"
I'VE shall soon master the mag
netic mine as we have already mas
tered the U-boat," the Prime Min
lister assured Britain, expressing
complete confidence in our ulti-
mate victory"
Mr. Chamberlain charged the Ger
mans with ignoring the "considera-
tions of humanity particularly in
sowing "indiscriminately" new
kind of mine and daily blowing up
neutral ships as we'll as British, and
thereby drowning or mutilating
citizens of countries with which they
are not at war"
War Aim to Defeat Enemy.
"Our war aims can be stated very
shortly" he said. "It is to defeat
our enemy, and by that I do not
merely mean the defeat of the ene-
my's military forces; I mean the
defeat of that aggressive, bullying
mentality which seeks continually
to dominate other peoples by force
which finds brutal satisfaction in
the persecution and torture of in
offensive citizens, and, in the name
OF the interests of the state, justi-
f1es the reputation of its own
pledged word whenever it finds it
convenient
If the German people can be
convinced that that spirit is as bad
for themselves as for the rest of
the world, they will abandon it. II
we can secure that they do aban-
don it, without bloodshed, so much
the better. But abandoned il
must be!
THAT is our war aim. And we
shall persevere in this struggle until
we have attained it.
when we come to the peace aims
we are dealing with something to
be achieved in conditions we cannot
at present foresee. Our definition
of them can, therefore, only be in
the most general terms, but there
can be- no harm in declaring the
broad lines on which we should
desire to found them.
Our desire, then, when We have
achieved our war aims, would be
to establish a new Europe; not new
In the sense of tearing up all tht