FOUL HITLER OUTRAGE

Opotiki News, Volume III, Issue 315, 25 September 1940, Page 3

FOUL HITLER OUTRAGE

BURNING INDIGNATION INFAMOUS WARFARE (News by Cable.) RUGBY, Sept. 23. _ Horrified condemnation is expressed in all quarters of the German crime iu sinking a vessel in mid-Atlantic without warning on a bitter, stormy night, a ship carrying children from vulnerable areas to Canada. As reported yesterday the outrage occurred on Tuesday with the loss of 300 lives. Eighty-niue of those who perished were children. 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, indiscriminate war, the descent of his aerial torpedoes iu residential areas to blast people from their homes, nor any of the other examples of Nazi terrorism can deaden the sensitiveness of feeling to this atrocity of a torjiedo launched through dark teinpestous- seas.” The Daily Telegraph says: “To realise the facts is to feel compassion for the victims infused with burning indignation against the perpetrators of so foul an outrage against every humane instinct.” The Daily Mail, a-fter remarking: “The crime stands out as a supreme instance of horror,” adds: “On the sea, as on land the hand of murder reaches out to strike the children.”

The Daily Mail says: “Even amid the-carnage Hitler is trying to cause among London’s women and children, the story of the sinking of the evacuee liner stands out as a supreme example- of wanton horror. Nothing has given the world a more vivid, more awful example of the sort of warfare Hitler wages. Let the details never be forgotten until the day of reckoning arrives. “We must ask, with the parents, whether the Government is absolutely satisfied with the arrangements for the transport of the children. Arc the, ships convoyed far enough to sea Many thousands have already crossed the Atlantic safely, but more must be done to prevent a repetition of this tragedy ”