NAVAL PROTECTION
CONSIDERED IN AMERICA. NO DECISION REACHED. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 4. The Secretary of State, Mr Cordell Hull, and the Acting-Secretary to the Navy, Mr Edison, conferred with President Roosevelt regarding the possibility of providing naval vessels to convoy America liners bringing Americans from Europe. It is announced that a decision was not reached. ILLEGAL ATTACK FIRST LORD'S STATEMENT. (Received This Day, 8.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 4. A United Press London dispatch states Mr Winston Churchill announced in the House of Commons that reports “indicate that the Athenia was torpedoed without warning.” He said: “The Athenia was in no way an auxiliary cruiser and that he hoped the convoy system could soon be operated.” He added: “The fortunate escape of the survivors does not alter the fact that they were in open boats two- hundred miles from land and caAnot be regarded as legal objects of attack.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1939, Page 5
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