DERISIVE LAUGHTER
LABOUR PARTY QUERIES INDIGNITY ON HIGH SEAS BRITISH SHIPS STOPPED (Elec Tel. Copyright—United Press Assr.) (Reed. July 16, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, July 15. "Is there no indignity which we will not tolerate?" asked a Labour member in the House of Commons when Lieut-Colonel J. J. Llewellyn, making a statement on behalf of the Admiralty, mentioned the' Royal Oak and protested against the action of the Spanisli rebel cruiser, the Almirante Cervera, firing a third shot at the steamer Molton.
Mr. Arthur Henderson (Lab., Kingswinford) followed up by asking if it were not without precedent in English history for a British warship to stand by and allow a British ship to be attacked.
Colonel Llewellyn's reply was that the ship was not attacked, but was merely brought to. This provoked derisive laughter from the Labour members.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19378, 16 July 1937, Page 5
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