NAZI PROPAGANDA

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 64, 15 March 1940, Page 7

NAZI PROPAGANDA

MONOTONOUSLY TOLLS THE

BELL

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 13. The bell of a famous German liner which is being used to announce over the Zeesen wireless the destruction by German action of enemy vessels and which had the unfortunate initiation of tolling the sinking of the British freighter San Florentino though the vessel was not even attacked, and now, after unloading its cargo at a British port, is making another voyage, has continued to toll the destruction of a number of British ships that are still peacefully carrying out their duties. The bell tolled six times yesterday, and the loss of six ships in "consequence of German counter-measures" was announced to listeners in the Far East. However, in only one of these six cases did the bell herald the loss of a ship in "consequence of German counter-measures," this being the Dutch vessel Amor, which was bound from a neutral port to a neutral port. The only other ship damaged by naval action was the Greek steamer Niritos, also a neutral vessel bound for a neutral port from a neutral port. The bell tolled again last night to announce: "The armed British patrol j boat Halifax has gone down." In point of fact the Halifax was a fishing trawler which, as already reported, caught a mine in its net. She was damaged by the explosion, but was taken in tow for two hours before sinking. The only casualty was a minor injury to one man.