IN BOOM WITH AXIS
MR. "BILLY" HUGHES
SHELLING OF NAURU ISLAND
(Received December 31, 8 ajn.)
TOKIO, December 30,
Mr. "Billy" Hughes, the Australian Minister of the Navy, is temporarily enjoying an Axis boom. The Domei news agency Quotes the official German, news service as noting with approval Mr. Hughes's statement that the raider which shelled Nauru Island hoisted the German flag before the bombardment. The Germans say that Mr. Hughes has "definitely refuted reports attributable to enemy propaganda that the raider was flying the flag of a friendly nation. German warships, of course, carry out their duties against the enemy under the German flag" The Berlin correspondent of the "Nichi Nichi Shimbun" reports that Germany admits the bombardment of Nauru but denies that the raider flew Japanese colours.
Mr. Hughes, supplementing the' statement • made by the Australian Premier, Mr. Menzies, regarding the shelling of Nauru Island, emphasised that it was typical of the enemy raider that she never approached British merchant shipping under her own colours but always under the colours of a neutral or friendly Power. At Nauru said Mr. Hughes, when the « raider had satisfied itself that there were no warships about, it hoisted the Nazi flag and opened fire at pointblank range. _^
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 157, 31 December 1940, Page 6
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