WORLD SHOCKED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24412, 25 September 1940, Page 7

WORLD SHOCKED

LATEST NAZI OUIKAGE SINKING OF CHILDREN'S SHIP NO LIMIT TO TERRORISM (British Official Wireless) (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) RUGBY, Sept. 23/ Horrified condemnation was expressed in all quarters to-day of the German submarine's sinking, in midAtlantic, without warning and on a bitter and stormy, night, the ship carrying children from vulnerable areas to Canada.

The Times says: "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 merciless and indiscriminate war, the descent of his aerial torpedoes in residential areas to blast people from their homes, nor any of the other examples of Nazi terrorism can deaden sensitiveness of feeling to this atrocity of a torpedo launched through a dark and ' tempestuous sea." ".'■.■ ■ ".'■..'.■ ..-.-.,.• ..,,_■.- The Daily Telegraph says: To realise the facts is to feel compassion for the victims infused with a burning; indignation against the perpetrators of so' foul an Outrage against every humane instinct." ' The Daily Mail, after remarking thai; the stands out as a supreme instance of horror, adds that Pn the sea, as on the land, the. hand of', murder reaches out to strike at children. '•"''■■'". -..'; . Among the messages received by the authorities.to be, passed on to ihe relatives of the children lost is

one from the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr R. G. Menzies: This latest exhibition of savagery by the Nazis will steel the British people in their resolve to count no sacrifice too great in defeating the dark spirit for which the Nazi regime stands. According to a message from Berlin it is officially denied that Germany was responsible for sinking the evacuation ship. It was stated that no German U-boat or aeroplane was operating 600 miles from the British coast. "The Germans attack only armed merchantmen," it is stated. "That is our answer to the British report, which is a brazen lie for squeezing the tear of the world and contributing towards bringing the United States into the war on the British side."

Informed Berlin circles declared: "It is strange that the ship, which was supoosed to have sunk on September 1.7; was not reported.lost till the night before the King's address. It looks like efficient propaganda.'