ARMED MERCHANTMEN
THE QUESTION OF SINKING. QUEEN MARY AND MAURETANIA. '(Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, November 14. A communique issued in Berlin this morning lists 34 British and French ships armed against submarines. “These will he treated as warships and attacked without warning,” says the communique. A German naval spokesman said that the liners Queen Mary and Mauretania were included, in the list of British and French armed vessels in which neutrals would be> “positively foolhardy” to sail. He added that commanders of submarines could not be expojctcyd to decide whether an armed ship carried offensive or defensive weapons. Eiach commander should the guided by circumstances whether to sink a ship without warning. Asked if the Queen Mary would be sunk without warning, the spokesman said that if the Queen Mary pretended to not see the U-boat’s signals and use her superior speed to escape tho U-boat would he entitled to -sink her, but if she stopped she would be searched and either released, sunk, or escorteel to a German port, depending on her cargo. The spokesman added that in the case of any me reliant mam manned with guns, even uncovering them would be. regarded as resisting.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 30, 15 November 1939, Page 5
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