YOUNG BRITONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 September 1940, Page 5

YOUNG BRITONS

CHILDREN FROM TORPEDOED LINER BEHAVED LIKE GUARDSMEN ON PARADE. ANXIOUS TO START OFF AGAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 1. The chairman of the Overseas Reception Board, Mr Geoffrey Shakespeare, spent the whole of today with the children from the liner which was torpedoed in the North Atlantic. In a message to the board he said that the children came ashore from the rescue ships singing popular songs principally “Roll Out the Barrel.” The sailors and others who had looked after them were enthusiastic about their behaviour, and reported that they bore themselves like Guardsmen on parade. All the children, added Mr Shakespeare, were in high spirits and inclined to be proud of the thrilling adventure they had undergone. The desire that this interruption should not be allowed to rob them of their trip overseas was general. A company of youngsters from Newcastle were particularly worried lest what happened should prevent them from again starting off on the trip to the new home overseas, and a ferventlyexpressed desire was that their parents should not worry but should permit them to make another voyage.

* NAZI POLICY NO DIFFERENTIATION. IN TREATMENT OF SHIPS. LONDON. September 2. It is authoritatively stated in Berlin that Germany was unaware of the torpedoing of the evacuee ship, but if it was true Germany was not responsible because, after declaring the total

blockade against Britain, she could not differentiate in the treatment of ships.