GOEBEN'S ESCAPE
ADMIRAL MILNE'S STORY
' A COUNTERMANDED ORDER.
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. ■ . LONDON, 23rd January. Rear-Admiral Milnej writing in the Sunday Express, concludes his story of the Goeben's escape. He describes how on Bth August, 1914, the pursuit of the Goeben was interrupted for twenty-four hours by the Admiralty ordering immediate hostilities against Austria, and then countermanding these orders on.the 9th on the ground that Britain was not at war with Austria. The resumption of the pursuit was' ordered, but the Goeben and Breslau were at the Dardanelles op the 10th and proceeded to Constantinople. -
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 20, 24 January 1921, Page 7
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103GOEBEN'S ESCAPE Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 20, 24 January 1921, Page 7
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