ARMED VESSELS
GIANT SHIPS LISTED
GERMAN INTERPRETATION
(Reed. Nov. 15, 2.20 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 14.
The German naval spokesman said in Berlin to-day that the Queen Mary and the Mauretania were included in the list of Anglo-French armed vessels in which neutrals would be “positively foolhardy” to sail. He added that 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.
The spokesman was asked if the Queen Mary would be sunk without warning. He said that if the Queen Mary pretended not to see the U-boat signals and used her superior speed in the effort to escape the U-boat it would be entitled to sink her, but if she stopped she would be searched and either released, sunk or escorted to a German port, this depending on the cargo.
The spokesman added that any merchantmen manning guns, or even uncovering them, would be regarded as resisting.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20096, 16 November 1939, Page 7
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