SINKING OF MEKNES.
THE GERMAN VERSION. DENIAL OF IDENTITY. LONDON, July 26. The German wireless describes the sinking, of an 18,000”'ton, vessel off Portland as a particularly fine success, hut denies that the ship was the Mekn.es. “This only possible assumption is that the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr A. Y. Alexander, sank the Meklies in order to create antiG erm an propa ga n da.. ’ ’ The “Daily Express” revealed that Germany guaranteed safe ; passage for the Meknes.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 248, 27 July 1940, Page 6
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