NAVAL DROWNING TRAGEDY
NO COMMENT FROM COMMANDER (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.)
AUCKLAND, December 11
Asked to comment on Captain H. HSergeant’s statement on the naval tragedy, Commander S. H. Paton, of H.M.S. Achilles, said: “It is not for me to make any comment now that the official papers have been forwarded to the Navy Office in Wellington. “The Navy Office now has all the facts as disclosed, and it is now up to them. I am not entitled to prejudice what the Navy Office may. or may not, wish to say.”
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22274, 13 December 1937, Page 16
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