NAZI BLUNDER
RADIO STORY OF SINKING OF GREEK SHIP • IN FORM OF AN INTERVIEW WITH U-BOAT CAPTAIN. LATTER LONG A PRISONER IN ENGLAND. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Dav. 11.35 a.m.) RUGBY, April 5. During the past ton days, no British ship has been subjected Io attack by Nazi submarines, but the German trans-ocean radio yesterday gave an account, in the form of an interview with a U-boat commander, of the sinking of the Greek ship Diamantis. The interview set out to show the care with which neutral seamen were treated by Nazi officers, but omitted to state that the Diamantis was sunk as long ago as October 3, 1939, by a U-boat whose commander has been a prisoner of war in England cince November 27, 1939.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1940, Page 6
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127NAZI BLUNDER Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1940, Page 6
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