7 November 1940

7 November 1940 Recognition service boundary in the Gulf of Saint Malo

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III. Correction to the recognition-service regulations.
Naval High Command, 2nd Department, Naval War Staff, Nb, ref. 5136 secret, 18 September 1940.
In the “Recognition Service” regulations, annex 1, amend the wording of paragraph 13 b in pencil as follows:
“b) a strip fifteen nautical miles wide from the south-eastern corner of our own mine-warning area along the Dutch–Belgian coast to latitude 51°25′, thence along that latitude to longitude 2°05′ E, thence south along that meridian and in a strip five nautical miles wide along [continued].”

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III. Continued:
“…the French coast as far as Étables.
Along the whole of the remaining French coast, a width of fifteen nautical miles.
In the Gulf of Saint-Malo, the line Guernsey–Le Haux (48°42′ N, 3°08′ W) counts as the coast.” (A IV)

T-1022 Roll 2440, T1022_R2440_English_Translation.docx. Archive and frame references follow.