“WINKED AT.”
GERMANS’ SCAPA SCUTTLING. Lieutenant-Commander Kcnwortliy, in his autobiography, “Sailors, Statesmen and Others,” just published, alleges that the British Admiralty connived at the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow. The Admiralty, he says, did not desire to see other navies strengthened by the German warships, and tliey did not want them themselves, so they disclosed the situation to the German naval authorities, with a hint that Britain would sympathise with a _ gallant enemy’s preference for hara-kiri to tlio humiliation of handing over her navy as a prize to two Latin navies they had never encountered. There was a British outcry about the treachery of the Hun and treason, but the British Admiralty ended the war with a great bloodless victory.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 254, 23 September 1933, Page 7
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