FOUL OUTRAGE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23770, 25 September 1940, Page 10

FOUL OUTRAGE

SINKING C® LINER CHILDREN MURDERED INFAMOUS NAZI CRIME By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright British "Wireless LONDON, Sept. 03 Horrified condemnation is - e ' x . pressed in all quarters to-day of the German submarine's sinking in midAtlantic without warning on a bitter stormy night of the ship carrying children from vulnerable areas to Canada. The Times savs: "Another hideous German crime makes deeper the hue of Hitler's infamous warfare. Not even the daily and nightly occurrence in Hitler's programme of the merciless and indiscriminate war descent of his aerial torpedoes in residential areas to blast people from their homes, nor any of thoi other examples of Nazi terrorism, can ! deaden sensitiveness of feeling to atrocity of a torpedo launched through dark and tempestuous seas." The Daily Telegraph says that to realise facts -is to feel compassion for the victims infused with burning indig.j nation against the perpetrators of no' foul an outrage against every humane' instinct. . - • The Daily Mail, after remarking that the crime stands out as a supreme in-l stance of horror, adds that on sea, as! on land, the hand of murder reaches out' to strike children. Among the messages received by tfto authorities to be passed on to relatives of the children lost is the following from! the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. R.j G. Menzies: —"This latest exhibition of' savagery by the Nazis will steel the!' British people in their resolve to countno sacrifice too great in defeating the dark spirit for which the Nazi regime stands." GERMAN DENIAL ANSWER FROM BERLIN PROPAGANDA ALLEGATION LONDON, Sept. 23 A Berlin message says it is officially denied that Germany was responsible for the sinking of the liner with the loss of 294 lives, including 83 of 90 children being evacuated to Canada under the Children's Overseas Reception Board. ;

"No German U-boat or aeroplane ttas operating 600 miles from the British' coast," it is stated. "Germans attack 1 only armed merchantmen. "That is our only answer to the British report, which is a brazen lie'for squeezing the tear glands of the world and contributing to bringing "the United States into the war on the British side." ' ' V '•

Another message from Berlin says informed persons, commenting on the sinking of the ship, declared: "It is strange that the ship, supposedly sunk last Tuesday, was not reported lost' until the night before tile King's a&> dress. It looks like efficient prop>: ganda." ' . OFFICER'S IMPRESSIONS COLONEL WAITE SPEAKS GREAT KING AND GREAT PEOPLE LONDON, Sept, 24 "It will be of great comfort to all in New Zealand to know.that New Zealanders in London are looking after our boys," said Lieutenant-Colonel F. Waite, Overseas Commissioner of the National Patriotic Fund Board, in a broadcast to-day. "Our boys are looking forward to striking a real blow for old England." Lieutenant-Colonel Waite said " there were not many New Zealand-troops in London at present. Most of them were in the field. While Londoners were being bombed, the New Zealanders were waiting for the Hun in .comparative safety. -■

In the fortnight he had been in Britain, the commissioner continued," he had visited the north and had also been in Dover and Folkestone. He had been in air raids. There was no defeatism in Britain to-day in spite of Hitler's bombing. There was plenty of food. Although a few articles were rationed, there were many alternatives. One could go into a restaurant without ration cards and eat all one wantedAnd to him meals seemed cheap. . The damage to shops and houses in some parts was appalling, but London was a big place and comparatively the damage was small. Damage to military objectives seemed to be negligible. Lieutenant-Colonel Waite said Zealanders would be interested to learn that General Sir Alexander Godley was a full private in the Home Guard. His commander was the local jeweller. ; - -j

His impressions of London, concluded the speaker, could bo 3ummed up by the telling of this incident. Wh'' 9 the King last Friday was visiting people in the East End vrliose homes had been smashed to pieces by Hitlers bombs, one Londoner said to him, "Yon are a great King." To this the King quickly replied, "You are a great people." NORWAY RESISTS . FOODSTUFFS SPOILED . SHIPMENT ' TO GERMANY STOCKHOLM, Sept. 23 The Oslo correspondent of the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheters says that several Norwegians have been arrested for sabotaging foodstuffs, especially fish, for Germany. It is impossible to estimate the extent of the damage. Organised resistance against the German Army of occupation is progressing in certain districts in Norway, in which Communists are reported to be taking part. TWO KILLED ARSENAL EXPLOSION UNITED STATES TRAGEDY/; NEW YORK, Sept. 23/

A message from Dover, New Jersey, says two* persons were killed s,nd sixinjured by an explosion at the United--States Army arsenal. The eight victim?., were engaged in removing fuses * ro ®- (jreat War shells,