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ANNEX I.

Instructions for Aircraft and Submarines with regard to shipping in the North Sea and Skagerrak.

(A) Air Attack.

All ships whether underway, at anchor or alongside, may be attacked within an area bounded by the following limits:-

(a) The parallel of 66° North.

(b) The longitude of 40 East as far as latitude

60° North thence to a position in latitude 56° North 50 East, and the longitude of 50 East.

(c) The coastlines of Holland, Germany, Denmark,

Sweden, Norway.

Any ships at anchor or alongside in any European port in the hands of the enemy may also be attacked.

(B) Submarines.

All ships whether underway, at anchor or alongside, may be attacked within an area bounded by the following limits:

(c)

(a) The parallel of 66° North.

(b) The longitude of 0°09' West and the eastern edge

of the area dangerous from mines, established in Notice to Mariners No. 2931 of 30.12.39, and the longitude of 2°31' Bast.

(c) The latitude of Ostend.

(a) The coast-lines of Belgium, Holland, Germany,

Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

Ships in Swedish territorial waters are only to be attacked if underway; ships located in the channel defined in Admiralty message 1153/12th April may be attacked at sight.

(D)

The foregoing instructions are limited by the following proviso:-

Neutral ships of whose description and movements the Admiralty have been informed, and which are promulgated to submarines on patrol and to aircraft may not be attacked within these areas, unless, after leaving Swedish territorial waters, they fail to keep to the above channel until they reach its western limit or do not then proceed along the route promulgated by the Admiralty.

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