ARMED VESSELS
GERMAN WARNING
SINKING WITHOUT NOTICE
LATITUDE TO UrBOAT^ COMMANDERS
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright} '(Received November 15, noon.)
LONDON, November 14.
A communique issued in Berlin this morning lists 34 British and French ships and 'freighters which have been armed against submarines. "These will be treated as warships and attacked without warning," says the communique. The German naval spokesman said that the Queen Mary and the Mauretania are included in a list of British and French armed vessels in which travel by neutrals is "positively foolhardy." He added that U-boat commanders could not be expected to decide whether an armed ship carried offensive or defensive weapons. Each commander should be guided by circumstances whether to sink a ship without warning. Asked if the Queen Mary would be sunk without warning, the spokesman said that if the Queen Mary pretended riot.to see signals by a U-boat and used her superiorspeed to escape, the U-boat would be entitled to sink her, but if she stopped she would be searched and either released, sunk, or escorted, to a German port, depending on the cargo. The spokesman added that any merchantmen which manned their guns, or even uncovered them, would be regarded as resisting. 7
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 118, 15 November 1939, Page 9
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