NAZI LIES
REFULATION IN BRITAIN & ELSEWHERE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. November 22. Questioned in the House of Commons about the lying tales of the sinking of the Athenia being circulated by Nazi agents in letters posted in. neutral countries, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty (Mr Shakespeare) said that these stories were so obviously false that he thought the truth could safely be left to find its own acceptance. A German broadcaster announced that a Finnish steamer, the Arne Kjode, was sunk near Denmark by a floating British mine. The truth is quite otherwise. According to a number of naval books the Arne Kjode was a Norwegian tanker. She was not sunk by a mine, but torpedoed by a German U-boat. She was not .sunk off Denmark but north-west of the Orkneys, and the survivors of the crew were landed nt the Orkneys and the west coast of Scotland. A German news agency yesterday quoted a report by the Jugoslav newspaper “Vreme” that the Jugoslav Lloyd shipping company had ordered its ships not to call at British ports. This is false. The “Vreme” merely stated that it had learnt that such a step was being contemplated. The company states that no foundation whatever for this allegation exists and it has issued a dementi in today’s “Boatski Glasnik. ■
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1939, Page 6
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217NAZI LIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1939, Page 6
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