GERMANY AGAIN DENIES LIABILITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 227, 24 September 1940, Page 7

GERMANY AGAIN DENIES LIABILITY.

EVACUEE SHIP SUM. British Lie To Get America Into The War! United Press Association.—Copyright. (Reed. 11.30 a.m.) LOXDOX, Sept. 23. A Berlin message says it is officially denied that Germany was responsible for the sinking of the child evacuee ship with the loss of 294 lives, including 83 of 90 children being evacuated to Canada under the Children's Overseas Reception Board.

'"Xo German U-boat or aeroplane was operating 600 miles from the British coast," it is stated. "Germans attack only armed merchantmen. "That is our only answer to the British report, which is a brazen lie for squeezing the tear glands of the world and contributing to bringing the United States into the war on the British side.'* Another message rrom Berlin says informed persons, commenting on* the sinking of the evacuee ship, declared: "It is strange that the ship, supposedly sunk last Tuesday, wae not reported lost till the night before the King's address. It looks like efficient propaganda." It will be remembered that when the British liner Athenia was sunk in the first days of the war, with heavy loss of life, Xazi agencies grotesquely charged Mr. Churchill with being responsible for the sinking of the vessel for propaganda purposes.