BARBARIC METHODS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 14, 17 January 1940, Page 7

BARBARIC METHODS.

Nazis Attack Trawlers And Lighthouse Ship. COMMENT IN LONDON. British Official Wireless. (Received 1 p.m.) RUGBY, January 16. Naval circles in London point out that the principal events last week in the war at sea have been attacks on unarmed fishing ships and a lighthouse ship. When the U-boat cempaign failed Germany had adopted other methods to starve out Britain. First, she laid magnetic mines—perfectly legal weapons had they been placed in position in the legal way, but the Germans failed to notify the position of such mines, which resulted in many losses to neutral as well as Allied shipping. Later they directly attacked shipping within Norwegian territorial waters, and next they opened a violent attack on unarmed fishing vessels. Finally, they attacked a lightship. The whole world now recognised that the German methods were becoming more and more desperate, and more and more barbaric. Details of attacks on lightships refute the allegation that they are posts for warning the coast defence against raiders, says a United Press Association cable from London. Lightship Xo. 87 did not use radio when attacked by a bomber for fear of provoking further attacks; lightship No. 85 wirelessed an S.O.S. only after it had been bombed, upon which the 'planes attacked again.