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BEATTY SAID "DAMNED IF I DO." [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Monday 2.45 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 24. A naval correspondent describing Admiral Beatty's meeting with the German delegates, states that Admiral Bcattv and his staff scrupulously kept aloof," and refused to shake hands with the Germans, who were most amiably inclined. At one stage Admiral Beatty ended a severe denunciation of baby-killing with the remark: "Had you not skulked in harbours but fought, all this business would have been saved.' At another stage Admiral Beatty was inclined to make concessions to a German's urgent pleading. Then in his own words: "1 suddenly thought of the Lusitania and said, 'Be damned if I do.' "
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Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 14068, 26 November 1918, Page 5
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