NAZI DENIAL
OF CHILD EVACUEE SHIP NO U-BOAT IN REGION OF ATTACK., BRITISH REPORT CALLED . BRAZEN LIE. (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) BERLIN, September 23. It is officially denied that Germany is responsible for ' the sinking of the child evacuee ship. It is stated that no German U-boat or aeroplane is operating 600 miles from the British coast. The statement goes on: “Germans attack only armed merchantmen. That is our answer to the British report, which is a brazen lie for squeezing the tear glands of the world and contributing towards bringing the United States into the war on the British side.” MORE CHILDREN DEAD TOTAL OF 89 LOST IN LINER. LONDON, September 23. Twelve privately-evacuated children were aboard the torpedoed evacuation liner in addition to the Government evacuees and six of them perished, making the child losses 89.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1940, Page 6
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