A NEW FORM.
NAZI BARBARITY.
Attacks On Unarmed Ships,
Allied And Neutral.
NOTHING NOW IMMUNE.
(Received 1 p.m.)
RUGBY, January 10.
Further proof was afforded yesterday that Allied and neutral unarmed merchant ships aro considered by Germany as legitimate targets for her bombers, in the sinking of the British steamer Gowrie and the attacks on two Danish ships, Ivan Kondrup and Fcddy. In addition, five other steamers, one of which was a Trinity House boat relieving, lightships off the cast coast, and five fishing smacks were also bombed. The bombing of the Trinity House ship, which Was crowded with men returning to their duty of keeping watch in lonely lightships along the east coast after Christmas leave, and which resulted in the injury of 31 men and the death of one officer, is considered a particularly barbaric assault. Hitherto, ships of this essentially non-military service have been spared by Nazi bombers, but it appears that now nothing that ventures on the seas, from a raft of shipwrecked seamen to vessels bearing lightship personnel, are immune from inhuman Nazi attacks.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 9, 11 January 1940, Page 8
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179A NEW FORM. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 9, 11 January 1940, Page 8
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