MORE GERMAN LIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1939, Page 9

MORE GERMAN LIES

NOW H.M.S. REPULSE

ADMIRALTY'S ASSURANCE

HITLER ON THE TRUTH

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received October 17, 11 a.m.)

RUGBY, October 16. !

It is authoritatively stated that the British Admiralty has ho intention of denying all the mendacious reports of British naval losses circulated in the German Press and wireless. The loss of the Courageous and the Royal Oak have duly been made public, but, not content with this, the Germans have repeatedly announced the loss of the aircraft carrier Ark Royal and have now "definite proof" that she has been replaced by. the Glorious. These tales are entirely without foundation, as are the stories that the battlecruiser Hood was recently damaged and will take six to eight months to repair, that a heavy cruiser was damaged by aircraft off May Island, and that ten hits by aircraft bombs were registered upon British naval units in the engagement last week off the coast of Norway. On this last occasion German aircraft dropped more than a hundred bombs in a series of attacks lasting nearly eight hours and did not obtain a single hit. A few spent splinters fell on, board one cruiser, but that is all. The latest German report is the battlecruiser Repulse is damaged and is unfit for action. This is also untrue. "Unless it is for the purpose of misleading neutrals or heartening their own people by exaggerating the success of German arms it is difficult to see the reason for these lying statements as to British 'losses' which have not taken place," states the Admiralty. "Of course Hitler himself has said in 'Mem Kampf that, provided one lies hard enough and often enough, someone may eventually believe the wildest misstatement."

The Admiralty made it clear that it has no intention of denying every rumour or every lie circulated in the German Press or by wireless which may assist the enemy to discover facts that might be useful to them.

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.)

(Received October 17, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 16,

The German Navy High Command claims that H.M.S. Repulse was badly damaged and disabled by a torpedo from, the submarine which sank the Royal Oak. It adds that the submarine is safe in! German waters. Naval circles entirely discredit the report, regarding it as typical German propaganda.