FORMALLY APPROVED
DROPPING OF DEPTH CHARGES
BY AMERICAN DESTROYER
RIGHT OR SELF-PRESERVATION.
(Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 29.
The Senate Naval Affairs Committee has published secret testimony given by Colonel Knox (Secretary for the Navy) at an inquiry into charges of shooting by the Navy. The report confirmed Colonel Knox's statement that the United States had not co-operated with the British Navy or armed forces beyond the terms of the Lend or Lease Act. and also confirmed that the captain of a United States destroyer, while off the coast of Greenland, rescuing 60 survivors from a torpedoed steamer, thought he heard a submerged submarine. Ho immediately dropped three depth charges. The committee said that in doing this the captain very prudently exercised the right of selfpreservation; otherwise the destroyer might have been sunk. The committee expressed the opinion that further investigation need not be undertaken.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1941, Page 6
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147FORMALLY APPROVED Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1941, Page 6
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