PROTECTING BRITISH SHIPPING
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Is there any valid reason why the British Government should not ask the Spanish Government to permit their merchant vessels to be accompanied by 'destroyers, fitted with anti-aircraft guns (for the sole purpose of repelling air attacks), Within the territorial waters zone, beyond which, as things are, they are not allowed to pass ?
. I believe that permission would be accorded, and that enemy planes would think twice before, at all events,_getting within the range, where they can make effective use of machine guns.—Yours faithfully, EDGAR H. S. BARNES-AUSTIN, 36 Prospect Road, Tunbridge Wells.
, [Anti-aircraft guns defending. a British vessel- lying in, say, Valencia harbour, would be defending Valencia, and so taking sides in the civil war.—En. The Spectator.]
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