EPIC SEA STORY
WORK OF CHURCHILL RAWALPINDI’S FIGHT LONDON, Nov. 29. Mi - . Winston Churchill, Britain’s versatile First Lord of the Admiralty, was the author of the official account of the battle between the German pocket battleship Deutschland and the armed merchant ship Rawalpindi. The Admiralty communique was regarded in many quarters as being an outstanding piece of news-writing, unusual in an official report of this kind. It was recalled that after the battle of Jutland in May 1916, Mi - . Churchill, who had just retired from the post lie holds to-day, was called upon to write tlie official news statement on the much-discussed sea fight. Lord Balfour had issued a brief report to the effect that three British battle cruisers had been sunk. Ensuing world-wire demand for details resulted in a lastminute appeal to the dynamic states-man-author.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20153, 24 January 1940, Page 5
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