NO EXCUSE
: NAZI AIR ATTACKS ON TRAWLERS. WHITE ENSIGN FLOWN BY MINE-SWEEPERS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day. 11.20 a.m.) LONDON. December 22. Highly-placed officials say that the Germans aerial attacks on unarmed British fishing boats presumably are an answer to the Admiral Graf Spee defeat. There is no possible excuse for confusing trawlers with mine-sweepers, which fly the White Ensign. The Government has accepted an offer from shipowners to share in equal proportions the cost of the wages of all survivors, officers and men. of ships torpedoed, mined, etc., for a period of a month, or until they reach Bi itain, whichever is the greater.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1939, Page 6
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107NO EXCUSE Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1939, Page 6
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