GERMAN THREAT
ARMED SHIPS TO BE SUNK WITHOUT WARNING MENTION OF QUEEN MARY AND MAURETANIA. INTIMATION TO NEUTRALS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON. November 14. A German naval spokesman said the Queen Mary and 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. Asked if the Queen Mary would be sunk without warning, the spokesman said that if the Queen Mary pretended not to see U-boat signals and used her superior speed to escape, a 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 her cargo. The spokesman added that any merchantmen manning guns, or even uncovering them, would be regarded as resisting.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1939, Page 6
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