NAZI OUTRAGE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 254, 24 September 1940, Page 7

NAZI OUTRAGE

SINKING IN ATLANTIC

WAVE OE INDIGNATION

(United Press Association—Copyiight.) (.British. Official Wireless.) (Rec. 9 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 23. Horrified: condemnation is expressed in all quarters to-day at the Herman submarine’s sinning in mid-Atlantic without warning, on a. bitter, .stormy night, ol tlie ship carrying children from vulnerable areas to Canada.

“Another hideous German crime makes deeper the hue of Hitler’s infamous warfare,” says the Times. “Not even the daily and nightly occurrence in Hitler’s programme _of merciless, indiscriminate war, the descent of his aerial torpedoes m residential areas to blast people iron their homes, nor any of the other examples of Nazi terrorism can deaden the sensitiveness of feeling to this atrocity of a torpedo launched through the dark, tempestuous seas.” The Daily Telegraph says: “To realise the facts is to feel compassion for the victims, infused with burning indignation against the perpetrators of so foul an outrage against every humane instinct.” “WANTON HORROR.”

The Daily Mail, after remarking tha the crime stands out as a supreme in stance of horror adds: “On sea, a=on land, the hand of murder reaches out to strike children.

“Even amid the carnage Hitler is trying to cause among London’s women and children the story of the sinking stands but as the supreme example of wanton horror. Nothing has given the world a more, vivid am more awful example of the sort c. warfare Hitler wages. Let the detai never be forgotten until the day of reckoning arrives.

“We must ask with the parents wl ther the Government is absolutely satisfied with the arrangements for the transport of children. Are the ships convoyed far enough to seaf Many thousands have already crossed the Atlantic safely, but more must be done to prevent a repetition of this tragedy.” . . . Among , the messages received by the authorities to be passed on to the relatives of the children lost is one from the Prime Minister of Australia (Mr R. G. Menzics) as follows: “This latest exhibition of savagery by the Nazis will steel British people in their resolve to count no saeriuee too great in defeating the dark spirit tor which the Nazi regime stands.” Informed circles in Berlin, commenting on the sinking of the evacuee ship, declare that it was strange that a snip supposed to have been sunk on September 17 was not reported i«till the night before the King’s address. “it looks like' eific.ent propaganda,” they added.