SAFETY OF SHIPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1941, Page 5

SAFETY OF SHIPS

ALLEGED LEAKAGE OF INFORMATION OFFICIAL INQUIRY ORDERED BY GOVERNMENT. VERY SERIOUS VJEW TAKEN, ißy Telegraph.™ Press Association.l WELLINGTON. This Day. The intention of the Government Io have mi olTiciul inquiry held into all the circum'.L’lHeiK arsoeialetl with the nt tucks made on men-lmnt vessels by enemy raiders in the South I’.’icdie was aniUHUired yesterday by the I’rime Minister. Mr P'raser. The personnel of the hoard of inquiry and its scope will he tniiuiiiilei'dl Inter. It is expecietl that the inquiry will begin this week. Mr Fraser said his attention had been drawn to remarks relating to leakage of information from this country. made by Captain James H. Miller, in the course of an address to the Christchurch Returned Soldiers' Association on Monday. Captain Miller was stated to have said that the Government. to whom he had retwrted that there was a leakage of information concerning shopping from this country, had informed him shut it was impossible tor such a thing to take place. Mr Fraser said that he was quite sure that Cajstain Miller’s remarks had been misunderstood, as he was certain that no member of the Government could have or would have made any such statement As a matter of fact, die Government had taken a very serious view of the statements previously made by Captain Miller. Captain Upand other officers and members of crews anti passengers on the ships attacked by the raiders, to the effect that information regarding the movements of shipping had been leaking out and getting into the hands of enemy raiders operating in the South Pacific, and eonsetpiersfly had called for a full report from the Navy. "The Nava! Board has now recommended that an inquiry should be held." said the Prime Minister "It is therefore projxised to hold an inquiry int«» all the circumstances of the attacks I v the raiders <»n the vessels concvi'ned The jx-rsonne! and tb.e stope i f the inquiry will be annoimcrd later It is exjsected that the inquiry will Io- Miiinmcrd during the present