BOGUS CLAIM
MADE BV THE GERMANS COMPLETION OF SOVIET WARSHIPS. AT BLACK SEA NAVAL BASE. LONDON, November 3. Though the Germans claim that they are continuing the construction of the warships which the Russians left at the Black Sea naval base of Nikolaev, near Odessa, a Swedish correspondent with the. Axis forces says he saw no traces of such activity when he inspected the demolished shipyards a fortnight ago. The remnants of four uncompletedwarships lay there, including a 35,000-. ton battleship and an 8000-ton cruiser. The Russians evidently had done only one-third of the construction, and they burnt the underworks, whereupon the ships collapsed, apparently breaking their backs. The Germans said that Russian craftsmen were beginning work on the ships for Germany, but the correspondent ascertained that only some 2000 shipbuilding workers could be found from the 30,000 usually employed, and these 2000 so far were engaged exclusively in removing and collecting scrap, not shipbuilding.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1941, Page 5
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